Varengeville-sur-Mer

This article is about Varengeville-sur-Mer in the Seine-Maritime département. For Varangéville in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, see Varangéville.
Varengeville-sur-Mer

Coat of arms
Varengeville-sur-Mer

Coordinates: 49°54′24″N 0°59′44″E / 49.9067°N 0.9956°E / 49.9067; 0.9956Coordinates: 49°54′24″N 0°59′44″E / 49.9067°N 0.9956°E / 49.9067; 0.9956
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Offranville
Intercommunality Dieppe
Government
  Mayor (2001–2008) Christian Blanckaert
Area1 10.75 km2 (4.15 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 1,113
  Density 100/km2 (270/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 76720 / 76119

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.

Varengeville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France.

Geography

A forestry and farming commune situated by the coast of the English Channel and in the Pays de Caux, some 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Dieppe at the junction of the D27, D75 and the D123 roads. The commune has access to the pebble beach by means of a gap in the huge chalk cliffs.

Heraldry

The arms of Varengeville-sur-Mer are blazoned :
Gules, a mullet of 8 argent pierced azure, on a chief argent a lion passant gules.

Population

Historical population of Varengeville-sur-Mer
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population10119869981050104811791113
From the year 1962 on: No double countingresidents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

La maison du douanier de Varengeville (Customs officer's house), by Monet, 1882
Jean d'Ango manor

People

Cemetery
Bois des Moutiers

Twinning

The village is twinned with Herstmonceux in East Sussex, in the United Kingdom[1]

In Literature

Naomi Mitchison, in her autobiographic book "You may well ask", relates that in the 1920s and 1930 she and her family, along with other families of their social circle in London, used to have vacations in Varengeville: "At the small village of Varengeville, on top of the cliffs a few miles west of Dieppe, the families with children lived in fairy basic chalets which were fine for us. We ate at the hotel and went down a steep path to the sand and rather chilly swimming, and tremendously enjoyed each other's company".[2]

See also

References

  1. "Herstmonceux Parish Home Page". herstmonceuxparish.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
  2. Naomi Mitchison, You may well ask", London, 1979, Part I, Chap 7.

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