Rocquefort

Rocquefort
Commune
Coat of arms
Rocquefort
Location within Normandy region  Rocquefort
Coordinates: 49°40′00″N 0°41′50″E / 49.6667°N 0.6972°E / 49.6667; 0.6972Coordinates: 49°40′00″N 0°41′50″E / 49.6667°N 0.6972°E / 49.6667; 0.6972
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Intercommunality	Cœur de Caux
Area1	5.36 km2 (2.07 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	312
• Density	58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
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 Normandy 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

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

Population

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

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

References

• INSEE

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rocquefort.

• Official website (in French)
• Rocquefort on the Quid website (in French)