Sommery

Sommery
Sommery
Location within Upper Normandy region Sommery
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Saint-Saëns
Intercommunality	Saint-Saëns-Portes de Bray
Government
• Mayor	Serge Alin
Area1	21.39 km2 (8.26 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	706
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	76678 / 76440
Elevation	117–236 m (384–774 ft) (avg. 140 m or 460 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sommery is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Bray, some 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Dieppe, at the junction of the D915, D1 and D7 roads. Three streams within the commune’s territory feed the river Béthune. SNCF railways have a TER station here.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
688	735	665	619	583	645	706
Starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• An eighteenth-century cider press at the seventeenth-century Bray farm.
• The church of St. Vaast, dating from the thirteenth century.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
• Seine-Maritime
• Normandy

References

• INSEE

References

• INSEE

External links

• Sommery on the Quid website (French)