Le Fossé

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Le Fossé

|arrondissement = Dieppe

|canton = Gournay-en-Bray

|INSEE = 76277

|postal code = 76440

|commune = Forges-les-Eaux

|coordinates = {{coord|49.6094|1.5731|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 144

|elevation min m = 138

|elevation max m = 227

|area km2 = 10.11

|population = 486

|population date = 2022

|population footnotes = {{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8290591/ensemble.pdf|title=Populations de référence 2022|language=fr|trans-title=Reference populations 2022|publisher=INSEE|date=December 2024}}

}}

Le Fossé 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 commune of Forges-les-Eaux.[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2015/10/5/INTB1528252A/jo/texte Arrêté préfectoral] 5 October 2015

Geography

A farming and forestry village situated by the banks of the Epte river in the Pays de Bray, some {{convert|35|mi|km}} southeast of Dieppe at the junction of the D9 and the D915 roads.

Population

{{Demography

|1962 = 386

|1968 = 384

|1975 = 377

|1982 = 303

|1990 = 359

|1999 = 382

|2006 = 458

|withoutdoublecount = 1962

}}

Places of interest

  • The church of St.Pierre & St.Paul, dating from the sixteenth century.

See also

References

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Category:Former communes of Seine-Maritime

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