Veulettes-sur-Mer

Veulettes-sur-Mer

Coat of arms
Veulettes-sur-Mer

Coordinates: 49°50′52″N 0°35′49″E / 49.8478°N 0.5969°E / 49.8478; 0.5969Coordinates: 49°50′52″N 0°35′49″E / 49.8478°N 0.5969°E / 49.8478; 0.5969
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Cany-Barville
Intercommunality Côte d'Albâtre
Government
  Mayor (20142020) Françoise Guillot
Area1 4.71 km2 (1.82 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 336
  Density 71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 76736 / 76450
Elevation 0–81 m (0–266 ft)
(avg. 10 m or 33 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.

Veulettes-sur-Mer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A tourism and farming village situated on the coast of the English Channel in the Pays de Caux, some 27 miles (43 km) southwest of Dieppe at the junction of the D79 and the D271. The Durdent river flows to the sea here through the pebble beach (the longest in the department at 2 km) and huge chalk cliffs which rise up to face the sea .

Heraldry

The arms of Veulettes-sur-Mer are blazoned :
Azure, in fess 2 roses Or and in pale a crescent and a heart with a cross on top argent (those 4 charges in a lozenge formation), and in chief a label argent.

Population

Historical population of Veulettes-sur-Mer
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population439363342369299296336
From the year 1962 on: No double countingresidents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

The cliffs of Veulettes

People

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Veulettes-sur-Mer.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.