Sassetot-le-Mauconduit
# Sassetot-le-Mauconduit

Sassetot-le-Mauconduit (French pronunciation: ​) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

## Geography

A farming village, by the coast of the English Channel, in the Pays de Caux, situated some 34 miles (55 km) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D5 and D79 roads. The commune is sandwiched between two ‘’vallons’’, short valleys that create a gap in the huge cliffs, giving access to the sea via the pebble beach. The name comes from the Norman "Sax-Tot", meaning ‘’village of the Saxons". Mauconduit was the name of the 13th century seigneurs.

## Heraldry

| Arms of Sassetot-le-Mauconduit | The arms of Sassetot-le-Mauconduit are blazoned : Or, a millrind between 4 crosslets, and on a chief azure 2 anchors Or. |
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## Places of interest

* The church, dating from the nineteenth century.
* The eighteenth-century chateau and park of Sassetot
* The eighteenth-century chateau of Briquedalle
* The chateau of Criquemanville.
* Three chapels.
* The sixteenth-century stone cross in the cemetery.
