The former commune of Tournay-sur-Odon is the result of the addition of three old fiefs seigneuriaux, hence the absence of a village in favor of hamlets scattered throughout the territory. In the Middle Ages, a village was to exist around the church, which was abandoned because of the Black Death, so that the church is now isolated in the countryside. This rural town reached a peak population of more than 750 inhabitants in the 1800s, then experienced the rural exodus in the 1950s with 220 inhabitants, then revitalized with the proximity of Caen. Tournay-sur-Odon extends on both sides of the valley of Odon, with important slopes and wooded right bank, while one finds on the left bank more sunny the principal hamlets, which that of Villodon Famous by the Camembert which bore his name and which won the gold medal in 1929. In 1944, during the disembarkation, the former commune located a few kilometers from the front saw its inhabitants forced to undergo a second exodus, while the Germans had retreated into the valley, Marshal Rommel "would have" stayed in Ragny's castle. Finally the territory is part of a ZNIEFF (Natural Area of Ecological Interest Fauna and Floristic) and tries to preserve its landscape of grove.
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