Auberville is located on the northern Normandy coast some 8 km east by north-east of
Cabourg and 13 km south-west of
Deauville. Access to the commune is by road D513 from
Houlgate in the west which passes through the village and continues north-east to
Villers-sur-Mer. The D163 branches off the D513 in the village and goes south to
Branville. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Les Genets, Les Bruyeres, and Le Manoir. The north of the commune is forested along the coast with slopes down to the beach while the rest of the commune is farmland.[4]
The name was attested in the form Osbertivilla in 1082.[5] It came from the Germanic
anthroponymOsbert[5] or alternatively from the Scandinavian Osbern[6] and the old French ville (from the
Latinvilla) in its original sense of "rural domain".
History
Archaeological excavations have found
Merovingian tombs.
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abAlbert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963 (in French)
^René Lepelley, Etymological dictionary of names of communes in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996
ISBN2905461802, BnF 36174448w, p. 52 (in French)
^Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Pierre Ucciani (in French)
^Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Julien Turbiau (in French)
^Programme of expositions 2014 - Le Villare - Villers-sur-Mer, Marie-Renée Ucciani (in French)"
^Jean-Pierre Beuve, Summer special: Normandy - Houses of stars,
Le Point, No. 1822, 16 August 2007,
Read online, consulted on 9 November 2009 (in French)