Oissel

Oissel
Oissel
	Location of Oissel
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
Intercommunality	CREA
Government
• Mayor (2008 - 2014)	Thierry Foucaud
Area 1	22.19 km2 (8.57 sq mi)
Population (2006)	11,611
• Density	520/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76484 /76350
Elevation	2–128 m (6.6–419.9 ft) ; (avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Oissel is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A suburban and light industrial town situated by the banks of the river Seine, just 8 miles (13 km) south of Rouen at the junction of the D18 and the D13 roads. Junction 22 of the A13 autoroute is entirely within the commune’s borders. SNCF operates a TER rail service here.

Heraldry

Arms of Oissel	The arms of Oissel are blazoned : Per pale argent and azure, a half-filled alembic gules and a garb Or, and on a chief gules, a leopard Or, armed and langued azure.

Population

Population history
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
9936	9949	10,501	11,712	11,444	11,053	11,611
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

People

Daniel Horlaville, footballer born in 1945.
Raoul Grimoin-Sanson (1860–1941), cinematographic inventor.
Grégory Tafforeau, footballer born in 1976.
Thierry Foucaud, 1954-, Politician.

Places of interest

The church of St.Martin, dating from the nineteenth century.
The sixteenth century manorhouse, the Manoir de La Chapelle.
The Dambray Pavillon, from the seventeenth century.
The Château de La Perreuse.

References

INSEE

External links

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