Mélamare | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Le Havre |
Canton: | Bolbec |
Insee: | 76421 |
Postal Code: | 76170 |
Mayor: | Bernard Verdière[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Caux Seine Agglo |
Coordinates: | 49.5383°N 0.4514°W |
Elevation M: | 115 |
Elevation Min M: | 60 |
Elevation Max M: | 136 |
Area Km2: | 6.35 |
Mélamare (in French pronounced as /melamaʁ/) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
A farming town in the Pays de Caux, situated some 14miles east of Le Havre, near the junction of the D34 and D312 roads.
Tradition holds that Saint Honorina (Sainte-Honorine) was martyred here in 303AD. There is a chapel dedicated to her in the town. The town name was recorded as Mellomara in the thirteenth century. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Protestantism survived here clandestinely.