Cayeux-sur-Mer
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Somme | |
| Arrondissement | Abbeville | |
| Canton | Friville escarbotin | |
| Community association | Baie de Somme | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 11 ′ N , 1 ° 30 ′ E | |
| height | 0-15 m | |
| surface | 26.29 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,477 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 94 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 80410 | |
| INSEE code | 80182 | |
| Website | cayeux-sur-mer.fr | |
 Cayeux lighthouse |
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Cayeux-sur-Mer ( Picard : Tchéyeu-su-Mér ) is a northern French municipality with 2477 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Somme in the region of Hauts-de-France . The municipality is located in the arrondissement of Abbeville and is part of the canton of Friville-Escarbotin .
geography
The seaside resort of Cayeux-sur-Mer is located around eleven kilometers west of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme on the Cote Picarde. In the north it extends to the Pointe du Hourdel on the Somme Bay . The place is the end point of the meter-gauge railway line of the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme from Noyelles-sur-Mer . Cayeux includes the districts (from the north) Le Hourdel (with a seal colony), La Mollière d'Aval, Brighton, La Mollière de Terre, Le Mont Rôti, Hurt and Le Marais.
history
Cayeux is mentioned for the first time in 1005. The Saint-Pierre church was built in the 12th century. The place burned down several times in the course of its history. Cayeux had a rail connection since 1887. During the Second World War , the lighthouse was destroyed by German troops in August 1944.
Residents
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| 2724 | 2750 | 2862 | 2649 | 2856 | 2781 | 2739 | 2660 |
administration
Mayor ( maire ) has been Jean-Paul Lecomte since 2014.
Attractions
- Abri du Benoît-Champy (boathouse for the Benoît-Champy lifeboat) from 1879, registered as a Monument historique in 2006
- around 400 bathing houses on Bohlenweg
- Railway station in the south of the village
- 28 m high lighthouse, put back into service in 1951
- new Saint-Pierre church, consecrated in 1902
Boardwalk with bathing house
Boathouse Benoît-Champy
Le Hourdel
Railway station at the beginning of the 20th century
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abri du canot de sauvetage Benoît Champy in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
