Saint-Wandrille-Rançon

Saint-Wandrille-Rançon
Saint-Wandrille-Rançon
Part of Rives-en-Seine
	Location of Saint-Wandrille-Rançon
	Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon
Commune	Rives-en-Seine
Area 1	18.11 km2 (6.99 sq mi)
Population (2019)	1,193
• Density	66/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	76490
Elevation	2–122 m (6.6–400.3 ft) ; (avg. 16 m or 52 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Wandrille-Rançon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ vɑ̃dʁij ʁɑ̃sɔ̃]) is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north west France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Rives-en-Seine.^[2]

Geography

A village of

farming and forestry situated by the banks of the Seine, some 18 miles (29 km) north-west of Rouen at the junction of the D22, D33 and the D982 roads. Until 1960, the Pont de Brotonne

was the first bridging point of the Seine. Today it carries the D490 over the river.

Heraldry

Arms of Saint-Wandrille-Rançon	The arms of Saint-Wandrille-Rançon are blazoned: Vert, a pall wavy Argent between one mill wheel and two fleurs-de-lys Or.

Places of interest

It is celebrated for the ruins of its

Huguenots

, and again the restoration was not finished for more than a hundred years. The demolition of the church began at the time of the Revolution but stopped in 1832.

Population

Historical population of Saint-Wandrille-Rançon
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	1061	1106	1261	1184	1151	1172	1196
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.