Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis.svg |
Arrondissement: | Rouen |
Canton: | Darnétal |
Insee: | 76599 |
Postal Code: | 76160 |
Mayor: | Sophie Boucquiaux[1] |
Term: | 2022 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Métropole Rouen Normandie |
Coordinates: | 49.4353°N 1.1514°W |
Elevation M: | 133 |
Elevation Min M: | 20 |
Elevation Max M: | 138 |
Area Km2: | 2.81 |
Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ leʒe dy buʁ dəni/) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis is a light industrial suburban town surrounded by woodland and situated in the Roumois, just 3miles east of the centre of Rouen at the junction of the D42 and the D138 roads.
The current official name of the town derives from a mistaken etymology dating back to French Revolution. Political authorities have retained and not reformed this quaint error to the present day. A more rational name would be "Saint-Léger-Bourdeny", after its ancient name "Bourdeny", a Gallo-Roman toponym in -acum, formed with the Germanic personal name Burdinus, thus Burdiniacum > Bourdeny. Burdinus, a given name, gave rise to the patronymic surnames Bourdain and Bourdin, common in west central France.
A similar name can be found in the Merovingian toponym Bourdainville.