Offranville

Offranville

Offranville
Administration
Country France
Region Upper Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Dieppe
Canton Offranville
Intercommunality Dieppe
Mayor Claude Dolique
(2008–2015)
Statistics
Elevation 8–92 m (26–302 ft)
(avg. 80 m/260 ft)
Land area1 17.34 km2 (6.70 sq mi)
Population2 3,643  (2006)
 - Density 210 /km2 (540 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 76482/ 76550
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.

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

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Geography

A small town of farming and light industry situated in the Pays de Caux at the junction of the D55, the D54 and the D237 roads, some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Dieppe. The river Scie forms most of the commune’s eastern border with St.Aubin.

Heraldry

The arms of Offranville are blazoned :
Quarterly 1: Or, a cross gules between 16 alerions azure; 2: Barry argent and gules, a lion sable crowned Or; 3: Tierced per fess a: azure, b: Or, a semi-circle couped azure c: argent, 3 ducks sable beaked and membered gules; 4: Gules, 2 batons raguly in saltire Or between a crescent argent and 3 mullets of 5 Or.

Population

Population history
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
2049 2040 2236 2930 3059 3471 3643
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

People

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942), artist, lived and died here.

Places of interest

Twin towns

See also

References

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