Saint-Antoine-la-Forêt

Saint-Antoine-la-Forêt
Commune
The town hall in Saint-Antoine-la-Forêt

Coat of arms
Saint-Antoine-la-Forêt
Location within Normandy region
Saint-Antoine-la-Forêt
Coordinates: 49°32′17″N 0°28′21″E / 49.5381°N 0.4725°E / 49.5381; 0.4725Coordinates: 49°32′17″N 0°28′21″E / 49.5381°N 0.4725°E / 49.5381; 0.4725
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Le Havre
Canton Bolbec
Intercommunality CA Caux vallée de Seine
Area1 6.44 km2 (2.49 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 1,004
 • Density 160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 76556 /76170
Elevation 10–137 m (33–449 ft)
(avg. 135 m or 443 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.

Saint-Antoine-la-Forêt is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village in the Pays de Caux, situated some 18 miles (29 km) east of Le Havre, at the junction of the D34 and D17 roads, in the valley of the Bolbec river.

Heraldry

 The arms of Saint-Antoine-la-Forêt are blazoned :
Or, on a fess indented azure between 2 angennes and a cross moline gules, a demi-lion issuant from the base of the fess argent.[1]

Population

Population history
1962196819751982199019992006
4895155307499029351004
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

  • The church of St. Antoine, dating from the twelfth century.
  • The manorhouse at Les Côtières.

See also

References

  1. ↑ (Note: this angenne is very rose-like, not the highly stylized cinqfoil.)


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