Guilmécourt
Guilmécourt | |
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Part of Petit-Caux | |
Location of Guilmécourt | |
![]() Guilmécourt ![]() Guilmécourt | |
| Coordinates: 49°58′02″N 1°18′11″E / 49.9672°N 1.3031°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Seine-Maritime |
| Arrondissement | Dieppe |
| Canton | Dieppe-2 |
| Commune | Petit-Caux |
Area 1 | 7.92 km2 (3.06 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 413 |
| • Density | 52/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 76630 |
| Elevation | 44–147 m (144–482 ft) (avg. 105 m or 344 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Guilmécourt 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 farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Dieppe at the junction of the D222, D117 and the D454 roads.
Heraldry
![]() | The arms of Guilmécourt are blazoned : Quarterly 1: argent, a mallet vert; 2&3 Azure étincelé, a lion argent; 4: argent, a pinecone vert. (étincelé is an obscure semy of 'sparks' often tiny 'stars' as here)
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Population
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Population | 166 | 185 | 185 | 245 | 240 | 241 | 261 |
| 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 St. Waast, dating from the thirteenth century.
- A sixteenth-century stone cross.
- A feudal motte.
Photos from around Guilmécourt
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Guilmécourt church -
Guilmécourt under snow -
A field of flax -
Harvest time -
Oil-seed rape fields -
Wheatfields - The countryside
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Sheep -
The countryside -
Guilmécourt at night -
Flower of the flax -
A field of cut flax
See also
References
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral 26 November 2015 (in French)
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