Smermesnil is a commune

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

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Geography

A farming commune created from three ancient parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

es and situated at the 2nd highest point in the department, between the valleys of the Yères

Yères

The Yères is a river of Normandy, France, in length, flowing through the department of Seine-Maritime- Geography :The river’s source is in the forest of Eu, just south of the village of Aubermesnil-aux-Érables. Its course takes a northerly route past Foucarmont and Fallencourt...

 and the Eaulne

Eaulne

The river Eaulne is one of the rivers that flow from the plateau of the eastern Pays de Caux in the Seine-Maritime département of Haute-Normandie in northern France. The Eaulne’s source is at Mortemer...

 rivers in the Pays de Bray

Pays de Bray

The Pays de Bray is a small natural region of France situated to the north-east of Rouen, straddling the French départements of the Seine-Maritime and Oise...

. The commune is about 17 miles (27.4 km) southeast 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...

 at the junction of the D920, D14 and D59 roads.

Population

style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em"|Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
414	446	285	267	218	250	439
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The château, built with stone from the ancient abbey
  Abbey
  An abbey is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey,...
  
  de Foucarmont.
• The church of St. Martin, dating from the thirteenth century.
• The church of St. Jean, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The church of St. Madeleine, dating from the sixteenth century.

External links

• Smermesnil on the Quid website