Noville is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.

Due to the similarity between the names Noville and the neighboring municipality of Villeneuve (Villa Nova) it is very difficult to identify which village is being mentioned in older records.

[3] Charlie Chaplin's coffin was found buried in a field near Noville after being stolen by Roman Wardas and Gantcho Ganev in an attempt to extort money from his widow, Oona Chaplin.

[4][5] Noville has an area, as of 2009[update], of 10.35 square kilometers (4.00 sq mi).

[6] The municipality is located in the Aigle district, on a small hill above the right bank of the Rhone river where it enters Lake Geneva.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (579 or 89.5%), with German being second most common (32 or 4.9%) and Italian being third (17 or 2.6%).

[9] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Noville is; 75 children or 10.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 102 teenagers or 14.6% are between 10 and 19.

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The entire village of Noville is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.08% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 212 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.5%.

In the tertiary sector; 99 or 62.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 2.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 13.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 5.1% were in the information industry, 5 or 3.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 3 or 1.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 3.8% were in education.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 168 or 26.0% were Roman Catholic, while 380 or 58.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.

[18] On 1 March 1978, Charlie Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Roman Wardas and Gantcho Ganev.

The body was held for ransom in an attempt to extort money from his widow, Oona Chaplin.

The pair were caught in a large police operation in May, and Chaplin's coffin was found buried in a field in Noville.