Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer
# Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer

Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: ​, literally Sainte-Marguerite on Sea) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

## Geography

A farming and coastal village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Dieppe at the junction of the D75 and the D323 roads. Huge chalk cliffs rise up from a pebble beach overlooking the English Channel, to form the northern border of the commune.

## Heraldry

| Arms of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer | The arms of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer are blazoned : Argent, the inscription (in two lines) "Ste. Marguerite/sur Mer" and in base a bar gemel wavy azure, and on a chief wavy gules 5 marguerite daisies slipped and leaved of the field 2 & 3. |
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## Places of interest

* The Vastérival gardens.
* The church of St. Marguerite, dating from the eleventh century.
* The sixteenth-century château de la Tour and its dovecote.
* A donjon.
* The lighthouse, rebuilt in 1955.
