Rocquefort

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Rocquefort
Rocquefort is located in France
Rocquefort
Rocquefort
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Location within Upper Normandy region
Rocquefort is located in Upper Normandy
Rocquefort
Rocquefort
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Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Le Havre
Canton Fontaine-le-Dun
Intercommunality Cœur de Caux
Area1 5.36 km2 (2.07 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 312
 • Density 58/km2 (150/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 76531 / 76640
Elevation 76–146 m (249–479 ft)
(avg. 130 m or 430 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.

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

Geography

A farming village in the Pays de Caux, situated some 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Le Havre, between the D29 and D131 roads, by the banks of the river Durdent.

Heraldry

Arms of Rocquefort
The arms of Rocquefort are blazoned :
Or, 2 hammers and a lion gules, and on a chief indented azure, a comet argent.



Population

Population history
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
234 240 209 227 25 0 270 312
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the nineteenth century.
  • A nineteenth-century chapel.
  • An eighteenth-century chateau.
  • A feudal motte.

See also

References

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