La Fontelaye () is a
commune in the
Seine-Maritime department
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Government and military
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in the
Normandy region in northern
France.
Geography
A very small
farming village situated by the banks of the
Saâne river in the
Pays de Caux, some south of
Dieppe at the junction of the D303 and the D23 roads.
Population
Places of interest
* A seventeenth century
château built on the ruins of an earlier
castle
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.
* The church of St.Martin, dating from the thirteenth century.
See also
*
Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
References
Communes of Seine-Maritime
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