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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