Yport

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Coordinates: 49°44′19″N 0°18′50″E / 49.7386111111, 0.313888888889

Administration
Commune of Yport
Location

Country	France
Region	Haute-Normandie
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Le Havre
Canton	Fécamp
Mayor	Francis Grandguillot (2005-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	0 m–96 m (avg. 30 m)
Land area^¹	2,07 km²
Population^² (1999)	1011
- Density	488/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	76754/ 76111
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Yport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime département, in Normandy, northern France. The locals are known as Yportais or Yportaises.

1 Location
2 Demographics
3 History
4 Tourism
5 Festivals
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Location

Yport is located on the D104 road, about thirty kilometres north of Le Havre, on the coast of the English Channel.

[edit] Demographics

Population
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
987	1193	1159	1121	1141	1011
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] History

The site was probably occupied during the neolithic period, and later the Pays de Caux was inhabited by the Calates. During the Roman time, a road connecting Fécamp to Étretat passed through the locality at Pitron Fund from where a junction towards the village existed. The current D940 follows the route of this Roman road. The Roman presence was discovered following various archaeological excavations but nothing proves that it was permanently inhabitated. It may have been only a fishing site. Starting from the early Middle Ages the village was attached to Criquebeuf-en-Caux, where the church, the cemetery and the school were located, several kilometers away from Yport. Only in the 19th century did the commune of Yport come into existence, primarily because of the construction of the church. Officially, the commune of Yport was created on January 1, 1843 and its first mayor was Jean-Baptiste Feuilloley. The 19th century marked the beginning of the rise of sea-fishing. Many people were attracted to the area by the work and the population reached 1800. The sea front evolved considerably during this period. As a working port, the sea front had fishing-smacks, skiffs, caïques and other vessels moored up to the bollards.

Yport

During the 19th century, sea-bathing came into fashion, and Yport did not escape from it. In 1849 and 1884, the village was hit by cholera epidemics. Later, in the 1960s, fishing disappeared, like everywhere on the Côte d'Albâtre. The pace of life in the fishing village changed only very little. Yport is nowadays primarily a tourist town, with the casino, the beach and many quality resturants. A large car-park has now replaced most of the fishing boats at the sea-front.

[edit] Tourism

The Aval cliffs at Yport

Cliffs
Pebble beach
St.Martin's church: building started in 1838, it was finished only in 1876 after many modifications.
Casino
Yport is the place where Guy de Maupassant set his novel Une Vie

[edit] Festivals

Torch-light parade on July 13th.
Festival of the sea and painting on August 15th (mass, blessing, holy procession). An exhibition of paintings, painters and sculptors in the streets and on the beach, auction sale at 5pm of the art created during the course of the day).