Normandy, France · Europe
Creully works well as a base: 10 minutes from Ver-sur-Mer, 8km from D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514).
Creully is in Normandy, France, with about 1,500 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ver-sur-Mer, about 5 km away.
Creully (French pronunciation: [kʁøli] ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Creully sur Seulles.
The town square is named after Canadian Lieutenant Bill McCormick of the 1st Hussars Canadian ArmouredRead more
Regiment (London, Ontario). Lt. McCormick was the only Allied soldier to reach his D-Day objective when on 6 June 1944, after the tank he commanded passed through Creully, it reached the Caen-Bayeux road.
The school in Creully, Normandy, is named Cecil Newton Primary School in honour of Second World War veteran Cecil Newton.
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Within an hour or so of Creully: D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) (8 km), Bayeux Tapestry Museum (12 km), Bayeux Cathedral (12 km), Normandy American Cemetery (24 km).
The nearest famous roads are D-Day Beaches Coastal Road (D514) and Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Creully is in Normandy, France, about 5 km from Ver-sur-Mer.
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Full driving guide for France8 notable places within an hour's drive.
coastal drive
The coast road threading the five 1944 landing beaches from Utah to Sword, past Arromanches' Mulberry harbour remains, gun batteries and memorials: Normandy's essential remembrance drive.
8 km · about 15 min drive
museum
Home to the extraordinary 70-meter-long medieval embroidery depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
12 km · about 20 min drive
cathedral
A soaring Norman-Gothic cathedral in the first town liberated in 1944, home town of the famous tapestry.
12 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Rows of white marble crosses above Omaha Beach honour the fallen of the 1944 Normandy landings.
24 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
The most fiercely contested D-Day landing beach of June 6, 1944, now a solemn memorial site overlooking the English Channel.
26 km · about 30 min drive
film location
The D-Day beach whose assault opens Saving Private Ryan; the film shot in Ireland but the real site and its memorials are the destination.
26 km · about 30 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Cratered clifftop where US Rangers scaled sheer rock under fire on D-Day, bunkers still scarring the landscape.
35 km · about 40 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A miniature Alps of green gorges and rocky bluffs along the River Orne, beloved by drivers and climbers.
42 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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