Neuf-Marché

Neuf-Marché
Commune
The town hall in Neuf-Marché
Coat of arms
Neuf-Marché Location within Normandy region Neuf-Marché
Coordinates: 49°25′28″N 1°42′59″E / 49.4244°N 1.7164°E / 49.4244; 1.7164Coordinates: 49°25′28″N 1°42′59″E / 49.4244°N 1.7164°E / 49.4244; 1.7164
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Gournay-en-Bray
Intercommunality	CC 4 rivières
Government
• Mayor	Didier Degry
Area1	17.71 km2 (6.84 sq mi)
Population (2011)2	694
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76463 /76220
Elevation	77–210 m (253–689 ft) (avg. 85 m or 279 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.

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

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated by the banks of the river Epte in the Pays de Bray, some 26 miles (42 km) east of Rouen at the junction of the D 915 with the D 1 and D 19 roads. This commune is the furthest southeast within the department and borders both the Eure and Oise departments.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St. Pierre, dating from the tenth century.
• Traces of a feudal castle.
• Two eighteenth-century presbyteries.
• A sixteenth-century manorhouse.
• The nineteenth-century château of Vardes.
• A monument in the forest of Lyons by Robert Delandre.

People

• Béatrix Beck, author.
• Robert Delandre, sculptor.
• Bernard de Neufmarché, Norman lord active in the conquest of Wales 1088-1095.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neuf-Marché.

• Neuf-Marché on the Quid website (in French)