Crossword-Solution: CARENTAN 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

There is a junction here on the railway for Carentan and St Lô, but the place seems to have gone on quite unaltered by this communication with the large centres of population.

The birds were singing sweetly, and the distant tolling of the cathedral bells at Carentan added a richness to the sounds of nature.

There is a junction here on the railway for Carentan and St Lo, but the place seems to have gone on quite unaltered by this communication with the large centres of population.

Barfleur was as big as Sandwich, Carentan reminded them of Leicester, Saint-Lo was the size of Lincoln, and Caen was more populous than any English city save London.

After passing over a hilly road we crossed a marsh which extends from Carentan to the sea, and reached a town called La Haye-du-Puits—a singular name derived from the custom in the middle ages of surrounding the "motte" or enclosure upon which the donjon was built, with a wooden palisade, or sometimes with a thick hedge formed of thorns and branches of trees interlaced: hence La Haye-du-Puits, La Haye-Pesnel, and others.