Saint-Nicolas-de-Bliquetuit | |
Arrondissement: | Rouen |
Canton: | Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon |
Insee: | 76625 |
Postal Code: | 76940 |
Commune: | Arelaune-en-Seine |
Coordinates: | 49.5089°N 0.73°W |
Elevation M: | 10 |
Elevation Min M: | 1 |
Elevation Max M: | 54 |
Area Km2: | 9.23 |
Population: | 603 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Saint-Nicolas-de-Bliquetuit (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ nikɔla də bliktɥi/) is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Arelaune-en-Seine.[2]
A farming village situated in a meander of the river Seine, some 20miles northwest of Rouen at the junction of the D40, D65 and the D490 roads. The 60m high Pont de Brotonne bridge was, until the middle of the last century, the first crossing point of the Seine.