Cressy, Seine-Maritime

Cressy

Coat of arms

Cressy

Location within Normandy region

Cressy

Coordinates: 49°43′25″N 1°10′00″E / 49.7236°N 1.1667°ECoordinates: 49°43′25″N 1°10′00″E / 49.7236°N 1.1667°E

Country

Intercommunality

Communauté de communes du Bosc d'Eawy

Area¹

4.35 km² (1.68 sq mi)

Population (2010)²

281

• Density

65/km² (170/sq mi)

• Summer (DST)

INSEE/Postal code

76191 / 76720

Elevation

80–163 m (262–535 ft)
(avg. 150 m or 490 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.

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

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 31 kilometres (19 mi) south of Dieppe, at the junction of the D22 and the D296 roads.

Heraldry

	The arms of Cressy are blazoned : Argent, a bendlet vert, overal a lion queue forché sable, armed and langued gules, on a chief wavy gules, a latin cross and a leopard Or.

Population

Historical population of Cressy, Seine-Maritime
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	2010
Population	213	241	205	183	211	222	225	263	281
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century.
An eighteenth-century presbytery, now the town hall.
A stone cross from the thirteenth century.

See also

References

INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cressy (Seine-Maritime).

Cressy on the Quid website (French)

Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

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