Mesnil-Verclives is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Eure

Eure

Eure is a department in the north of France named after the river Eure.- History :Eure is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

 department in Haute-Normandie

Haute-Normandie

Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...

 in northern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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Etymology

Old North French Mesnil 'house' and Verclives (Warcliva 11th century) Old English clif or Old Norse klif. Verclives is located on a small hill. The first element could be Old English waeter. In French intervocalic consonants weakened and erased.

Old English clif or Old Norse klif can be found in several place-names of Normandy such as Witeclive 'white cliff' former hamlet near Evreux

Évreux

Évreux is a commune in the Eure department, of which it is the capital, in Haute Normandie in northern France.-History:In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe then inhabiting the area...

; Carquelif (Caleclif 1224 in Saint-Martin-en-Campagne

Saint-Martin-en-Campagne

Saint-Martin-en-Campagne is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A coastal farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, at the junction of the D113, D313 and the D925 roads, some east of Dieppe. Huge chalk cliffs rise up over a...

); Risleclif former hamlet near Saint-Samson-de-la-Roque

Saint-Samson-de-la-Roque

Saint-Samson-de-la-Roque is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.-Population:-References:*...

; Mont Escalleclif (12th century, Doville

Doville

Doville is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France....

); Mont Entenclin (Mont Estenclif 'stone cliff')...

The hill was used as an observation post at the battle of Brémule

Battle of Bremule

The Battle of Brémule was fought in 1119 between Henry I of England and Louis VI the Fat of France. Henry I had to defend his holdings in Normandy several times and defeated a French invasion at the Battle of Brémule in 1119....

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