Cressy, Seine-Maritime

Cressy (French pronunciation: [kʁesi]) is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-de-Scie.

Cressy
Part of Val-de-Scie
Coat of arms
Location of Cressy
Cressy Cressy
Coordinates: 49°43′25″N 1°10′00″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Neufchâtel-en-Bray
Commune	Val-de-Scie
Area 1	4.35 km2 (1.68 sq mi)
Population  (2019)	294
• Density	68/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	76720
Elevation	80–163 m (262–535 ft) (avg. 150 m or 490 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 31 kilometres (19 mi) south of Dieppe, at the junction of the D22 and the D296 roads.

Heraldry

Arms of Cressy

The arms of Cressy are blazoned : Argent, a bendlet vert, overall a lion queue forché sable, armed and langued gules, on a chief wavy gules, a latin cross and a leopard Or.

Population

Historical population of Cressy, Seine-Maritime

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	2010
Population	213	241	205	183	211	222	225	263	281
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the twelfth century.
• An eighteenth-century presbytery, now the town hall.
• A stone cross from the thirteenth century.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

External links

• Cressy on the Quid website (in French)