Sassetot-le-Mauconduit

Sassetot-le-Mauconduit
Sassetot-le-Mauconduit
Location within Upper Normandy region  Sassetot-le-Mauconduit
Coordinates: 49°48′16″N 0°31′45″E / 49.8044°N 0.5292°ECoordinates: 49°48′16″N 0°31′45″E / 49.8044°N 0.5292°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Valmont
Intercommunality	Canton of Valmont
Government
• Mayor	Eric Scarano
Area^1	8.81 km^2 (3.40 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	945
• Density	110/km^2 (280/sq mi)
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 Haute-Normandie 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

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
809	897	749	890	944	957	945
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

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

References

• INSEE

External links

• Website of the commune of Sassetot-le-Mauconduit (French)
• Sassetot-le-Mauconduit on the Quid website (French)