Hautot-sur-Mer

Hautot-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [oto syʁ mɛʁ], literally Hautot on Sea) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Hautot-sur-Mer
Commune
The church of Pourville
Coat of arms
Location of Hautot-sur-Mer
Hautot-sur-Mer Show map of France Hautot-sur-Mer Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 49°53′51″N 1°02′05″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Dieppe-1
Intercommunality	CA de la Région Dieppoise
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Jacques Brument[1]
Area 1	9.46 km2 (3.65 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	1,879
• Density	200/km2 (510/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76349 /76550
Elevation	0–103 m (0–338 ft) (avg. 90 m or 300 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 small town of farming and light industry situated in the Pays de Caux, immediately to the west of Dieppe, at the junction of the D 75, D 56 and D 925 roads. The chalk cliffs and pebble beach of the commune look out over the English Channel. The river Scie flows through the commune and to the sea at the small tourist resort of Pourville.

History

The commune was formed in 1822 by the joining together of the communes of Hautot ("Hotot" in 1240), Petit-Appeville and Pourville, on the coast. It was here that a large force of Canadian soldiers came ashore during the ill-fated Dieppe Raid on 19 August 1942.

Heraldry

Arms of Hautot-sur-Mer

The arms of Hautot-sur-Mer are blazoned : Vert, a chief argent, overall a lion Or.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 520 —     1800 505 −0.42% 1806 460 −1.54% 1821 502 +0.58% 1831 829 +5.14% 1836 868 +0.92% 1841 925 +1.28% 1846 950 +0.53% 1851 930 −0.42% 1856 990 +1.26% 1861 1,068 +1.53% 1866 1,118 +0.92% 1872 1,194 +1.10% 1876 1,183 −0.23% 1881 1,310 +2.06% 1886 1,487 +2.57% 1891 1,384 −1.43% 1896 1,272 −1.67%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,342 +1.08% 1906 1,483 +2.02% 1911 1,431 −0.71% 1921 1,361 −0.50% 1926 1,311 −0.75% 1931 1,419 +1.60% 1936 1,589 +2.29% 1946 1,689 +0.61% 1954 1,903 +1.50% 1962 1,639 −1.85% 1968 1,657 +0.18% 1975 1,912 +2.07% 1982 1,982 +0.51% 1990 2,111 +0.79% 1999 2,120 +0.05% 2007 1,991 −0.78% 2012 1,978 −0.13% 2017 1,914 −0.66%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Places of interest

At the Seashore, painted by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz at Pourville in 1886

Soleil couchant, temp brumeux, Pourville by Claude Monet (1882)

• A nineteenth century château
• The ruins of a feudal castle
• A memorial to the World War II raid, built in 2002.^[5]
• The two churches of St.Remi, both dating from the sixteenth century
• The modern church at Petit-Appeville
• Two 16th-century stone crosses

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Hautot-sur-Mer, EHESS (in French).
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
5. Explore France, Dieppe Memorial, published 29 October 2013, accessed 16 November 2022