Cressy, Seine-Maritime

Cressy
Cressy
Location within Upper Normandy region Cressy
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Bellencombre
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)
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 19 miles (31 km) south of Dieppe, at the junction of the D 22 and the D 296 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

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

References

• INSEE

External links

• Cressy on the Quid website (French)