Creully

{{Infobox French commune

| name = Creully

| image coat of arms = Blason Creully.svg

| image = Ancienne Halle de Creully.JPG

| arrondissement = Caen

| canton = Thue et Mue

| INSEE = 14200

| postal code = 14480

| commune = Creully sur Seulles

| coordinates = {{coord|49.2844|-0.5394|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| elevation m = 40

| elevation min m = 7

| elevation max m = 61

| area km2 = 8.56

| population = 1586

| population date = 2018

| population footnotes = [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/4989724/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2018], INSEE

}}

Creully ({{IPA|fr|kʁøli|-|Fr-Creully.ogg}}) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Creully sur Seulles.[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2016/9/8/INTB1629486A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 8 September 2016 {{in lang|fr}}

The town square is named after Canadian Lieutenant Bill McCormick of the 1st Hussars Canadian Armoured Regiment (London, Ontario).{{cite news|last=Outhit|first=Jeff|title=Liberator then, hero still|url=https://www.toronto.com/news-story/2580061-liberator-then-hero-still/|accessdate=17 January 2021|newspaper=Record (Kitchener, ON)|date=8 June 2011}} Lt. McCormick was the only Allied soldier to reach his D-Day objective when on 6 June 1944, after the tank he commanded passed through Creully, it reached the Caen-Bayeux road.{{cite news|last=Belanger|first=Joe|title=Vet Wants to See Juno Beach Once More|url=https://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/2580655-the-greatest-longest-day/|accessdate=17 January 2021|date=8 June 2011}}

The school in Creully, Normandy, is named Cecil Newton Primary School in honour of Second World War veteran Cecil Newtonhttps://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/french-school-named-after-second-world-war-veteran-9300153/#:~:text=Sign%20in%20here.,sur%20Seulles%20Thierry%20Ozenne%2C%20left.