Neuf-Marché

Neuf-Marché
Neuf-Marché
Location within Upper Normandy region Neuf-Marché
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Gournay-en-Bray
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Canton de Gournay-en-Bray
Government
• Mayor	Didier Degry
Area1	17.71 km2 (6.84 sq mi)
Population (2011)2	694
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76463 / 76220
Elevation	77–210 m (253–689 ft) (avg. 85 m or 279 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.

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

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated by the banks of the river Epte in the Pays de Bray, some 26 miles (42 km) east of Rouen at the junction of the D 915 with the D 1 and D 19 roads. This commune is the furthest southeast within the department and borders both the Eure and Oise departments.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2007	2011
538	569	536	514	568	635	671	676	694
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The church of St. Pierre, dating from the tenth century.
• Traces of a feudal castle.
• Two eighteenth-century presbyteries.
• A sixteenth-century manorhouse.
• The nineteenth-century château of Vardes.
• A monument in the forest of Lyons by Robert Delandre.

People

• Béatrix Beck, author.
• Robert Delandre, sculptor.
• Bernard de Neufmarché, Norman lord active in the conquest of Wales 1088-1095.

See also

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

References

• INSEE

External links

• Neuf-Marché on the Quid website (French)