a seaport-town of France, department of Seine-Inferieure, situated on the English channel, at the mouth of a small cognominal river 23 miles N.N.E. of Havre. Pop. about 10,000. It occupies the bottom and sides of a narrow valley opening out towards the sea between two high cliffs, on one of which stands a lighthouse. Its port, though small, is one of the best on the channel, and has latterly been greatly improved by the construction of an inner port with a fine quay, &c. It carries on a considerable trade in Baltic and colonial produce, brandy, salt, &c.; and sends out vessels to the whale, cod, mackerel, and herring fisheries. The river affords abundant water-power for numerous cotton, oil, and other mills. Fécamp has also sugar refineries, tanneries, building docks, and manufactures of hardware, candles, soda, &c. The town consists almost entirely of one street upwards of two miles in length. The church, a large and handsome edifice, is the sole remains of a celebrated abbey founded towards the end of the tenth century, and destroyed during the Revolution.