Cressy, Seine-Maritime

Cressy
Commune

Coat of arms
Cressy
Location within Normandy region
Cressy
Coordinates: 49°43′25″N 1°10′00″E / 49.7236°N 1.1667°E / 49.7236; 1.1667Coordinates: 49°43′25″N 1°10′00″E / 49.7236°N 1.1667°E / 49.7236; 1.1667
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Neufchâtel-en-Bray
Intercommunality CC Terroir de Caux
Area1 4.35 km2 (1.68 sq mi)
Population (2010)2 281
 • Density 65/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 76191 /76720
Elevation 80–163 m (262–535 ft)
(avg. 150 m or 490 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Cressy is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 31 kilometres (19 mi) south of Dieppe, at the junction of the D22 and the D296 roads.

Heraldry

 The arms of Cressy are blazoned :
Argent, a bendlet vert, overal a lion queue forché sable, armed and langued gules, on a chief wavy gules, a latin cross and a leopard Or.

Population

Historical population of Cressy, Seine-Maritime
Year196219681975198219901999200620092010
Population213241205183211222225263281
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century.
  • An eighteenth-century presbytery, now the town hall.
  • A stone cross from the thirteenth century.

See also

References


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