Lestrade-et-Thouels

Commune in Occitanie, France

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Commune in Occitania, France

Lestrade-et-Thouels
Commune
Location of Lestrade-et-Thouels
(2020–2026)		Bernard Castanier^[1] (LR)
Area ¹	42.27 km² (16.32 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	444
• Density	11/km² (27/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	12129 /12430
Elevation	315–803 m (1,033–2,635 ft) (avg. 720 m or 2,360 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lestrade-et-Thouels (French pronunciation: [lɛstʁad e twɛl]; Occitan: L'Estrada e Toels) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	608	—
1968	672	+10.5%
1975	612	−8.9%
1982	624	+2.0%
1990	534	−14.4%
1999	454	−15.0%
2008	438	−3.5%

Relation to Inspector Lestrade

The village of Lestrade-et-Thouels is considered as a possible origin of the family name "Lestrade", made famous through the character Inspector Lestrade who appears in numerous Sherlock Holmes stories. Arthur Conan Doyle is known to have given the fictional inspector the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. The ancestry of Joseph Lestrade is not sufficiently known to establish a certain link between him and the French village.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.