Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer

Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer
Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer
Location within Upper Normandy region Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Offranville
Intercommunality	Dieppe
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Jean-Yves Nédélec
Area1	5.41 km2 (2.09 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	514
• Density	95/km2 (250/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76605 / 76119
Elevation	0–87 m (0–285 ft) (avg. 35 m or 115 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.

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

Beach

Geography

A farming and coastal village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Dieppe at the junction of the D75 and the D323 roads. Huge chalk cliffs rise up from a pebble beach overlooking the English Channel, to form the northern border of the commune.

Heraldry

The arms of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer are blazoned : Argent, the inscription (in two lines) "Ste. Marguerite/sur Mer" and in base a bar gemel wavy azure, and on a chief wavy gules 5 marguerite daisies slipped and leaved of the field 2 & 3.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
243	249	306	465	506	502	514
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The Vastérival gardens.
• The church of St. Marguerite, dating from the eleventh century.
• The sixteenth-century château de la Tour and its dovecote.
• A donjon.
• The lighthouse, rebuilt in 1955.

See also

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

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official website (French)
• Webcam of St Marguerite sur Mer
• Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer on the Quid website (French)