Saint-Martin-en-Campagne

Saint-Martin-en-Campagne
Saint-Martin-en-Campagne
Location within Normandy region
Saint-Martin-en-Campagne
Coordinates: 49°57′28″N 1°13′21″E / 49.9578°N 1.2225°E / 49.9578; 1.2225Coordinates: 49°57′28″N 1°13′21″E / 49.9578°N 1.2225°E / 49.9578; 1.2225
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Dieppe-2
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Bernard Defoy
Area1 6.85 km2 (2.64 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 1,266
 • Density 180/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 76618 /76370
Elevation 0–128 m (0–420 ft)
(avg. 118 m or 387 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-Martin-en-Campagne is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Petit-Caux.[1]

Geography

A coastal farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, at the junction of the D113, D313 and the D925 roads, some 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Dieppe. Huge chalk cliffs rise up over a pebble beach and overlook the English Channel. The Penly Nuclear Power Plant is also sited in this commune.

Heraldry

 The arms of Saint-Martin-en-Campagne are blazoned :
Gules, a sword, on a chapé argent a lion and an alerion gules, and on a chief azure, a seagull proper.

Population

Population history
1962196819751982199019992006
484544562833110410001266
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the fifteenth century.
  • A stone cross from the sixteenth century.
  • The Penly Nuclear Power Plant on the coast, with two reactors of 1300 MW each.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 26 November 2015 (in French)
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