Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
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Part of Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine
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Location of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon | |
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Coordinates: 49°29′24″N 0°34′19″E / 49.49°N 0.5719°E / 49.49; 0.5719 | |
Country | France |
Region | Normandy |
Department | Seine-Maritime |
Arrondissement | Le Havre |
Canton | Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon |
Commune | Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine |
Area
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| 18.74 km2 (7.24 sq mi) |
Population
(2019)[1]
| 8,823 |
• Density | 470/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal code |
76330
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Elevation | 0–138 m (0–453 ft) (avg. 35 m or 115 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon (French pronunciation: [nɔtʁ dam də ɡʁavɑ̃ʃɔ̃]) 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 Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine.[2]
A small town with a huge industrial area (Port-Jérome) to the southwest with farming and woodland to the north and east, in the Pays de Caux, situated by the banks of the river Seine, some 20 miles (32 km) east of Le Havre, at the junction of the D81, D373 and D110 roads.
The arms of Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon are blazoned : Per fess 1: per pale A: gules, a demi-lion issuant from the per pale line and B: Azure, the outline of a drakkar on waves argent; and 2: Vert, 2 stalks of wheat in saltire argent and in chief 3 chemical flasks outlined, and half full argent, middle one largest; all the lines of division fimbriated.
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Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1962 | 5,488 | — |
1968 | 6,273 | +2.25% |
1975 | 8,335 | +4.14% |
1982 | 8,963 | +1.04% |
1990 | 8,901 | −0.09% |
1999 | 8,618 | −0.36% |
Source: EHESS[4] |
Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon features a large industrial complex centered around the Seine river. The industrial area is dominated by Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon Refinery run by Esso.
Notre Dame de Gravenchon is twinned with Street, a village in Somerset, a county in the south west of England and Isny im Allgäu a city in the South of Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany and also Rubano in Northern Italy.
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