Sassetot-le-Mauconduit

Sassetot-le-Mauconduit
Commune
The church in Sassetot-le-Mauconduit

Coat of arms
Sassetot-le-Mauconduit
Location within Normandy region
Sassetot-le-Mauconduit
Coordinates: 49°48′16″N 0°31′45″E / 49.8044°N 0.5292°E / 49.8044; 0.5292Coordinates: 49°48′16″N 0°31′45″E / 49.8044°N 0.5292°E / 49.8044; 0.5292
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Le Havre
Canton Fécamp
Intercommunality CA Fécamp Caux Littoral
Government
  Mayor Eric Scarano
Area1 8.81 km2 (3.40 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 945
  Density 110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 76663 /76540
Elevation 0–104 m (0–341 ft)
(avg. 90 m or 300 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.

Sassetot-le-Mauconduit is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village, by the coast of the English Channel, in the Pays de Caux, situated some 34 miles (55 km) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D5 and D79 roads. The commune is sandwiched between two ‘’vallons’’, short valleys that create a gap in the huge cliffs, giving access to the sea via the pebble beach. The name comes from the Norman "Sax-Tot", meaning ‘’village of the Saxons". Mauconduit was the name of the 13th century seigneurs.

Heraldry

The arms of Sassetot-le-Mauconduit are blazoned :
Or, a millrind between 4 crosslets, and on a chief azure 2 anchors Or.

Population

Population history
1962196819751982199019992006
809897749890944957945
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

  • The church, dating from the nineteenth century.
  • The eighteenth-century chateau and park of Sassetot
  • The eighteenth-century chateau of Briquedalle
  • The chateau of Criquemanville.
  • Three chapels.
  • The sixteenth-century stone cross in the cemetery.

See also

References


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