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==Toponymy== Medieval place-name in ''-ville'' (from Gallo-Romance <small>VILLA</small> 'farm, estate'). Mentioned as ''Bleduinvilla'' in 1050 - 1060. Probably ''*Bladwinus'' 'estate, Germanic name ''*Bladwinus'' is never recorded, but belongs possibly to the developments of the anthroponymic element ''blad''. A similar name can be recognized in [[Blainville-sur-l'Eau]] (''Villa Bladini'' 10th century) 'the estate of ''Bladinus'' '<ref>François de Beaurepaire, ''Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Seine-Maritime'', éditions Picard 1979. p. 45.</ref> Crevon is a former parrish (''Chevron'' 1068–76, ''Kevron'' 13th century, ''Quevron'' → 16th). Crevon is the [[metathesis (linguistics)|metathesis]] of the Norman ''Quevron'', that is ''chevron'' 'beam' in French, that is to say "beam to cross the stream". The stream itself is now called [[Crevon]]. A aimilar Norman placename in [[Manche]] département is [[Hébécrevon]], with the personal name Hébert ([[Herbert (given name)|Herbert]]).<ref>Beaurepaire 63</ref>
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