title: Bennetot
text: # Bennetot
  
  Bennetot is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Terres-de-Caux.
  
  ## Geography
  
  A small farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D926 and the D217.
  
  ## Heraldry
  
  | Arms of Bennetot | The arms of Bennetot are blazoned : Per bend sinister, 1: Or, an abbot's crozier gules, and to sinister a maltese cross sable; 2: vert, 2 leopards Or |
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  ## Population
  
  Historical population of Bennetot :
  
  | Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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  | Population | 143 | 148 | 105 | 113 | 97 | 127 | 171 |
  | 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. André, dating from the seventeenth century.
  * A sixteenth century manorhouse
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Réné-Aubert Vertot, French historian, was born here on the 25th Nov 1655.
  