Bennetot

Bennetot
Part of Terres-de-Caux
Coat of arms
Location of Bennetot
Bennetot Bennetot
Coordinates: 49°40′19″N 0°33′11″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Commune	Terres-de-Caux
Area 1	4.58 km2 (1.77 sq mi)
Population  (2019)	183
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	76640
Elevation	97–131 m (318–430 ft) (avg. 121 m or 397 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bennetot is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Terres-de-Caux.

Geography

A small farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D926 and the D217.

Heraldry

Arms of Bennetot

The arms of Bennetot are blazoned : Per bend sinister, 1: Or, an abbot's crozier gules, and to sinister a maltese cross sable; 2: vert, 2 leopards Or

Population

Historical population of Bennetot

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	143	148	105	113	97	127	171
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. André, dating from the seventeenth century.
• A sixteenth century manorhouse

Notable people

• Réné-Aubert Vertot, French historian, was born here on the 25th Nov 1655.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department