Tinchebray | |
Arrondissement: | Argentan |
Canton: | Domfront |
Insee: | 610486 |
Postal Code: | 61800 |
Commune: | Tinchebray-Bocage |
Coordinates: | 48.7636°N -0.7331°W |
Elevation Min M: | 152 |
Elevation Max M: | 311 |
Area Km2: | 26.52 |
Population: | 2580 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Demonym: | Tinchebrayens |
Website: | www.tinchebray.fr |
Tinchebray (in French pronounced as /tɛ̃ʃ(ə)bʁɛ/) is a former commune in the Orne department in the Lower Normandy region in north-western France. On 1 January 2015, Tinchebray and six other communes merged becoming one commune called Tinchebray-Bocage.
It was the scene of the Battle of Tinchebray fought on 28 September 1106.
During the Second World War, it was liberated by Allied forces on 15 August 1944.[2]