Osmoy-Saint-Valery

Osmoy-Saint-Valery
Commune
Notre-Dame church in Osmoy
Osmoy-Saint-Valery
Location within Normandy region
Osmoy-Saint-Valery
Coordinates: 49°47′50″N 1°19′23″E / 49.7972°N 1.3231°E / 49.7972; 1.3231Coordinates: 49°47′50″N 1°19′23″E / 49.7972°N 1.3231°E / 49.7972; 1.3231
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Neufchâtel-en-Bray
Intercommunality Communauté de communes de Londinières
Government
  Mayor (2014-2020) Daniel Demonchy
Area1 16.21 km2 (6.26 sq mi)
Population (2011)2 333
  Density 21/km2 (53/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 76487 /76660
Elevation 40–193 m (131–633 ft)
(avg. 56 m or 184 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.

Osmoy-Saint-Valery is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

Geography

A farming village situated by the banks of the Béthune River in the Pays de Bray at the junction of the D 1 and the D 77 roads, some 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Dieppe.

History

Commune created in 1823 by the fusion of the three communes of Maintru, Osmoy and Saint-Velery-sous-Bures.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793133    
1800135+1.5%
1806150+11.1%
1821154+2.7%
1831607+294.2%
1836610+0.5%
1841616+1.0%
1846613−0.5%
1851572−6.7%
1856542−5.2%
1861526−3.0%
1866504−4.2%
1872464−7.9%
1876505+8.8%
1881520+3.0%
1886477−8.3%
1891486+1.9%
1896478−1.6%
1901419−12.3%
1906450+7.4%
1911441−2.0%
1921413−6.3%
1926442+7.0%
1931415−6.1%
1936420+1.2%
1946433+3.1%
1954400−7.6%
1962360−10.0%
1968324−10.0%
1975332+2.5%
1982293−11.7%
1990299+2.0%
1999310+3.7%
2006328+5.8%
2007331+0.9%
2011333+0.6%

Places of interest

  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century.
  • The chapel at Maintru.
  • A sixteenth-century stone cross.
  • The manorhouse de La Valouine, built in 1602 by the seigneurs de Ricarville.

See also

References

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