Saint-Martin-en-Campagne

Part of Petit-Caux in Normandy, France

Location of Saint-Martin-en-Campagne

49°57′28″N 1°13′21″E / 49.9578°N 1.2225°E / 49.9578; 1.2225CountryFranceRegionNormandyDepartmentSeine-MaritimeArrondissementDieppeCantonDieppe-2CommunePetit-Caux Area

6.85 km² (2.64 sq mi)Population

(2019)^[1]

1,238 • Density180/km² (470/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

76370

Elevation0–128 m (0–420 ft)
(avg. 118 m or 387 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Martin-en-Campagne is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Petit-Caux.^[2]

Geography

A coastal farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, at the junction of the D113, D313 and the D925 roads, some 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Dieppe. Huge chalk cliffs rise up over a pebble beach and overlook the English Channel. The Penly Nuclear Power Plant is also sited in this commune.

Heraldry

The arms of Saint-Martin-en-Campagne are blazoned :
Gules, a sword, on a chapé argent a lion and an alerion gules, and on a chief azure, a seagull proper.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1962	484	—
1968	544	+1.97%
1975	562	+0.47%
1982	833	+5.78%
1990	1,104	+3.58%
1999	1,000	−1.09%
Source: EHESS^[3]

Places of interest

The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the fifteenth century.
A stone cross from the sixteenth century.
The Penly Nuclear Power Plant on the coast, with two reactors of 1300 MW each.

References

^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ Arrêté préfectoral 26 November 2015 (in French)
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Martin-en-Campagne, EHESS (in French).