La Poterie-Cap-d'Antifer
La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer | |
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| Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Seine-Maritime |
| Arrondissement | Le Havre |
| Canton | Octeville-sur-Mer |
| Intercommunality | Le Havre Seine Métropole |
Area 1 | 5.81 km2 (2.24 sq mi) |
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| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 76508 /76280 |
| Elevation | 0–114 m (0–374 ft) (avg. 105 m or 344 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. It is located within the Seine-Maritime department.
History
[edit | edit source]During World War II, Operation Biting (also known as the Bruneval Raid) was a successful Combined Operations raid to capture components of a German Würzburg radar set at La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer and evacuated by the Bruneval beach on 27/28 February 1942. On 6 June 1944, small boats called Harbour Defense Motor Launches (HDML)[1] simulated an invasion fleet headed towards the area as part of Operation Taxable.[1] Today, it is a peaceful place full of tranquility.
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A HDML similar to the ones used for Operation Taxable
Geography
[edit | edit source]A farming village in the Pays de Caux, some 12 miles (19 km) north of Le Havre, at the junction of the D111 and D950 roads. The commune borders the English Channel and has a beach and some spectacular limestone cliffs. It has a small port nearby. This port does receive much traffic.<mapframe latitude="49.644068" longitude="0.41748" zoom="2" text="This is a map of the surrounding area." width="200" height="243" align="left" />It is nearby the city of Le havre as shown on the map.
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View of the cliffs
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At the bottom you can see the port facility.
Population
[edit | edit source]| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 269 | — |
| 1975 | 273 | +0.21% |
| 1982 | 314 | +2.02% |
| 1990 | 304 | −0.40% |
| 1999 | 316 | +0.43% |
| 2007 | 364 | +1.78% |
| 2012 | 445 | +4.10% |
| 2017 | 453 | +0.36% |
| Source: INSEE[2] | ||
Places of interest
[edit | edit source]- The church of St. Martin, dating from the seventeenth century.
- The Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse.
- Aforementioned farming village.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
- Shipping Forecast, Antifer in the French system refers to Wight in the British system.
References
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- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
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