Barfleur

Barfleur, a seaport town of France, in the department of La Manche, about 15 miles E. of Cherbourg. It is now a place of little importance, but it is noteworthy in history as the port whence, in 1066, William the Conqueror set out on his invasion of England. Population, 1135. Close by, on the ill-famed Pointe de Barfleur, stands the highest lighthouse in France, 271 feet above the sea.