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Ablon
Commune
Ablon Town Hall
Location of Ablon
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Coordinates: 49°23′39″N 0°17′48″E / 49.3942°N 0.2967°E / 49.3942; 0.2967
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Lisieux
Canton	Honfleur-Deauville
Intercommunality	Pays de Honfleur-Beuzeville
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Xavier Canu[1]
Area 1	12 km2 (4.6 sq mi)
Elevation	98 m (322 ft)
Highest elevation	118 m (387 ft)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (2023)[2]	1,166
• Density	97/km2 (250/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Ablonnais, Ablonnaises
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14001 /14600
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ablon (French pronunciation: [ablɔ̃] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Ablon is 5 km south east of Honfleur and 16 km north-west of Pont-Audemer with its northern border on the Seine Estuary. It can be reached on Highway D580A from Honfleur turning right on the small country road called Cote de Vats to reach the village of Ablon. Road D140 (Route de Genneville) from Genneville in the south passes through the western side of the commune to join the D580a just outside the commune. The D144 road forms the southern border of the commune. Ablon is in the north-eastern corner of the Calvados department with its eastern border being the departmental border with Eure.^[3]

The Morelle river passes through the north of the commune from east to west although oddly does not form part of the commune. The Canal de Retour is parallel to it but also does not form part of the commune.^[3]

The name of the village is attested as far back as 1180 as Abelon.

One theory states that the town's name comes from the Norse Epi-lundr, meaning “apple orchard”. The nearby village of Yébleron shares this etymology. The ancient scandinavian lundr meaning orchard or wood has regularly been followed by the suffix -lon (for example, Bouquelon, Écaquelon, Yquelon, etc.).

Another theory suggests that the town's name derives from the Germanic personal name Abilo, followed by the suffix -o/-one, but this suffix does not usually accompany Germanic personal names. It has also been suggested that the name is based solely on the name ‘Abilo' with no suffix but the usage of a personal name with no suffix or epithet would be exceptional among Norman place names.

A third theory suggests that Ablon comes from the Germanic personal name Abbo followed by the suffix -lon. If this is the case the name of the town means “Abbo's wood”.

The similarity with the nearby village of Ablon-sur-Seine is coincidental.^[4]

In 1809, Ablon grew in size following its union with two neighbouring communes: Crémanville and Ableville.^[5]

Ablon was the site of a Nobel dynamite factory from 1879 until 1989.^[6] The factory ceased operations following an explosion on 3 March 1988 which killed 5, including the factory's director, and left 8 injured. Windows were broken more than a kilometre away in the village of Honfleur.^[7][8]

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List of Successive Mayors of Ablon^[9]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ablonnais or Ablonnaises in French.^[10]

• Communes of the Calvados department

• Ablon official website (in French)
• Ablon on the old IGN website (in French)
• Ablon on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Ablon on the 1750 Cassini Map

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