Sandouville

Sandouville
Commune
The church in Sandouville
Coat of arms
Sandouville Location within Normandy region Sandouville
Coordinates: 49°29′52″N 0°19′12″E / 49.4978°N 0.32°E / 49.4978; 0.32Coordinates: 49°29′52″N 0°19′12″E / 49.4978°N 0.32°E / 49.4978; 0.32
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc
Government
• Mayor	Jacques Dellerie
Area1	14.8 km2 (5.7 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	764
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76660 /76430
Elevation	0–108 m (0–354 ft) (avg. 96 m or 315 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.

Sandouville is a commune in the Seine-Maritime département in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming and light industrial village, by the banks of the Seine, in the Pays de Caux, situated some 11 miles (18 km) east of Le Havre, at the junction of the D80 and D982 roads. The commune has two distinct parts: the north contains the village, farms and woodland, the south, separated by the A131 autoroute and the canal de Tancarville, has some port activity, a Renault factory and reclaimed marshland.

Heraldry

The arms of Sandouville are blazoned : Gules, a toothed wheel Or, and on a chief argent 3 martlets sable.

Population

Places of interest

• The Pont de Normandie (1995), the cable-stayed bridge over the Seine
• The church of St. Aubin, dating from the twelfth century

See also

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

References

• INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sandouville.

• Sandouville on the Quid website (in French)