Saint-Denis-sur-Scie
Encyclopedia
Saint-Denis-sur-Scie is a commune
in the Seine-Maritime
department in the Haute-Normandie
region in northern France
.
in the Pays de Caux
at the junction of the D57 with the D22 road, some 15 miles (24.1 km) south of Dieppe
.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...
department in the Haute-Normandie
Haute-Normandie
Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...
region in northern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
Geography
A farming village situated by the banks of the river ScieScie
Scie may refer to:*La Scie, Newfoundland and Labrador, town in Canada*Scie River, river in northern France*The SCIE System, Secure Client Information Exchange. A high security text based communication system....
in the Pays de Caux
Pays de Caux
The Pays de Caux is an area in Normandy occupying the greater part of the French département of Seine Maritime in Haute-Normandie. It is a chalk plateau to the north of the Seine Estuary and extending to the cliffs on the English Channel coast - its coastline is known as the Côte d'Albâtre...
at the junction of the D57 with the D22 road, some 15 miles (24.1 km) south of Dieppe
Dieppe, Seine-Maritime
Dieppe is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in France. In 1999, the population of the whole Dieppe urban area was 81,419.A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled...
.
Heraldry
Population
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 354 | 360 | 295 | 300 | 349 | 386 | 444 |
| Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates | ||||||
Places of interest
- The church of St. Denis, dating from the seventeenth century.
- The nineteenth-century chateau of Bosmelet and its park.
- A chapelChapelA chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
, once part of a leper hospital.