La Grange was designed for families on vacation
A comfortable Holiday Home in Normandy for your enjoyment
The restoration of La Grange was to produce a place which is warm in winter and cool in summer and environmentally friendly as possible. The emphasis was to create a convenient and comfortable base for families to enjoy their holidays in Normandy.
What our clients told us
La Grange has now had two full seasons and our clients have commented to us on the comfort of the accommodation and the convenience of the local shops all within 3 minutes walk from the La Grange.
Because of the location of La Grange with a good network of main roads close by our clients told us how convenient La Grange was for so many varied activities in the Normandy country side.
We have tried to provide a place to make sure that your holiday is a restful success and can be enjoyed by all the family and friends staying in La Grange. The location provides convenience for shopping with a super market and baker close by and we provide you with the comfort and the facilities for the ease of holiday living.
Linen and towels (not beach towels) are provided and a high chair and folding cot can also be provided on request.
Your comfort and safety is our concern, the garden is enclosed and all rooms are fitted with fire detection devices.
Shopping
- The nearest shop is just across the road is the St Hilaire-Petitville Boulanger Patissier which specialises in country style bread and has mouth watering cakes and chocolates, open every day (except Mondays) 0630-1930.
- LECLERC Hyper Market (Mondays - Saturdays open 0900 - 1930) which has a very large selection of food including a well stocked Fish Bar. It also has a book, map and an electrical area.
- Carentan has a further 4 Super Markets and a Market on Mondays. In the town are all the normal shops that one would expect in a Market Town including Chemists and at least one where English is spoken.
D Day Normandy Landing Beaches
- 101st Airborne Division liberated Carentan on 12th June 1944 and the town lies between Utah and Omaha beaches. Carentan Liberty's Group
- There are many memorials and museums within half an hour of Carentan, so that you can visit places that were featured in the films The Band of Brothers and the Saving of Private Ryan.
- The other D Day Beaches of Gold, Juno and Sword are easy to get to by travelling east along the N13.
D Day Museums
These museums are approximately within an hours drive.
- Dead Man's Corner Museum near Saint-Come-Du-Mont is the closest.
- Pegasus Bridge Memorial at Ranville which is dedicated to 6th British Airborne Division.
- Utah Beach Museum on Utah Beach near Saint-Marie-du-Mont close to Carentan.
- Omaha Beach Museum located on Omaha Beach close to Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer displaying landing craft, Sherman Tank an the only 105mm Long Tom Gun in Normandy. Close by at Vierville-sur-Mer is second Museum D Day Omaha
- Arromanches Museum, the Mulberry Harbourwhich explains how the artificial harbour was built and used during the Normandy Landings.
Things to do close by or within an hours drive
- The Village playground (5 minutes walk) where children can get rid of some of their excess energy (see photographs in the gallery).
- With 10 minutes walk away there is a new local Swimming Pool called the Aquadick
- For those that want to walk, cycle or jog from La Grange there is towpath which starts 300 metres away along the river Taute . The towpath leads to a road (with little traffic) into the Marshlands (Marais) and when it finishes there are foot paths and towpaths along the rivers and canals for many kilometres.
- For those that wish to go greater distances you can walk or cycle inland along old converted railway lines from Carentan (near the Railway Station) towards Barnville-Careret.
- Close to the Grange you can take a boat trip through the Marshes (summer only)
- Explore the many possible walks in the Regional Natural Park through the Marshlands (Marais) or walk or cycle north towards the Bay of Veys and enjoy bird watching in their habitat of the wet lands.
- Bird watching can be very exciting as there are for numerous migrating birds in winter and you can watch the local cormorants, herons, egrets and kingfishers fishing.
- In summer additional birds arrive from warmer climates where they have wintered. Last summer our visitors watched Sand Martins nesting in the river banks and Storks, Marsh and Reed Warblers nesting on the Marshes.
- In summer there are many excellent beaches for children and within a hours drive from La Grange; Barnville-Carteret beach on the west coat opposite Jersey and a little closer on the east coast is Utah beach.
- The Bayeux Tapestry is within 40 minutes drive from St Hilaire-Petitville.
- There are four golf courses within 45 Kilometres on the Cotentin Peninsular
10 minutes walk away a new indoor swimming pool with a sauna, steam room and fitness centre opened in July 2010 next to the old Port of Carentan.
