Sennecey-le-Grand

Sennecey-le-Grand
Sennecey-le-Grand
Commune
	The church in Sennecey-le-Grand
	Coat of arms
	Location of Sennecey-le-Grand
	Sennecey-le-Grand Sennecey-le-Grand
	Coordinates: 46°38′36″N 4°52′16″E / 46.6433°N 4.8711°E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Saône-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Chalon-sur-Saône
Canton	Tournus
Area 1	26.76 km2 (10.33 sq mi)
Population (2021)	2,922
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	71512 /71240
Elevation	173–375 m (568–1,230 ft) ; (avg. 230 m or 750 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sennecey-le-Grand (French pronunciation: [sɛnsɛ lə ɡʁɑ̃]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

Population[edit]

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,116	—
1975	2,269	+1.00%
1982	2,372	+0.64%
1990	2,568	+1.00%
1999	2,962	+1.60%
2007	2,988	+0.11%
2012	3,126	+0.91%
2017	3,149	+0.15%
Source: INSEE^[2]

Second World War SAS memorial[edit]

On 4 September 1984 a war memorial was unveiled to commemorate the WW2 casualties of the Special Air Service. Listing all of those from British 1SAS and 2SAS, including those who fell at Sennecey-le-Grand on 4 September 1944, French 3SAS and 4SAS and Belgian 5SAS, it is the only memorial to all components of a British regiment to exist outside of the UK.^[3]