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Saint-Martin-de-Varengeville is a
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in the
Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inféri ...
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in the
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region in northern
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.


Geography

A small town of
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,
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and a little
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situated by the banks of the
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, some northwest of
Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...
at the junction of the D90, D43 and the D86 roads.


Population


Places of interest


The church of St. Martin, dating from the nineteenth century.

* The chapel of St. Gilles, dating from the seventeenth century. * The nineteenth-century chateau Le Breton. * The seventeenth-century stone cross. * The chapel of St. Anne. * Traces of an ancient castle.


See also

*
Communes of the Seine-Maritime department The following is a list of the 708 communes of the French department of Seine-Maritime. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Official website
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