Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas

Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas
Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas
Location within Upper Normandy region Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Envermeu
Intercommunality	Monts et Vallées
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Yves Henaff
Area1	3.94 km2 (1.52 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	517
• Density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76210 / 76510
Elevation	14–136 m (46–446 ft) (avg. 15 m or 49 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.

Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village situated by the banks of the river Béthune in the Pays de Caux, some 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Dieppe, at the junction of the D1 and the D114 roads.

Population

Historical population of Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	333	396	509	510	515	483	517
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 St.Pierre & St.Paul, dating from the thirteenth century.
• Remains of a 19th-century chateau.
• A seventeenth-century manorhouse.

See also

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

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official commune website (French)
• Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas on the Quid website (French)