La Poterie-Cap-d'Antifer

La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer
La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer
	Commune
	Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse
	Location of La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer
	La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer La Poterie-Cap-d’Antifer
	Coordinates: 49°40′20″N 0°11′21″E
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)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	453
• Density	78/km2 (200/sq mi)
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.

History

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 simulated an invasion fleet headed towards the area as part of Operation Taxable.[2]

Geography

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.

Population

Historical population of La Poterie-Cap-d'Antifer
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	241	268	273	314	304	316	366
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

The church of St. Martin, dating from the seventeenth century.
The Cap d'Antifer Lighthouse.

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References

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Barbier, Mary Kathryn (2007). D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International. p. 70. ISBN 0-275-99479-1.

External links

Photos of Cap d'Antifer cliffs

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[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[Barbier-2] Barbier, Mary Kathryn (2007). D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude and the Normandy Invasion (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International. p. 70. ISBN 0-275-99479-1.