Cressy, Seine-Maritime

Cressy
Cressy
Location within Upper Normandy region  Cressy
Administration
Country	France
Region	Upper Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Bellencombre
Intercommunality	Bosc d'Eawy
Mayor	Guy Peignon
Statistics
Elevation	80–163 m (260–535 ft) (avg. 150 m/490 ft)
Land area1	4.35 km2 (1.68 sq mi)
Population2	225  (2006)
- Density	52 /km2 (130 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76191/ 76720
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.

Coordinates: 49°43′25″N 1°10′00″E / 49.7236111111°N 1.16666666667°E / 49.7236111111; 1.16666666667

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

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 19 miles (31 km) 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

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
213	241	205	183	211	222	225
From the year 1962 on: population without 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

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

References

• INSEE

External links

• Cressy on the Quid website (French)