Country of Bray
See also: Bray
The country of Bray is small a natural Région of France located at the east and the North-East of Rouen, with horse on the departments of the Seine-Maritime and the Oise (thus divided between the areas of High-Normandy and Picardy). It is an area of Bocage which is characterized by its ground Argile ux favorable to the pastures and the breeding dairy Bovin.
Etymology
Étymologiquement, the name of “Bray” comes from a term Gaulois indicating mud.
Geology
On the geological level, the country of Bray corresponds to a Anticlinal eroded Paris basin which constitutes the plate X Calcaire S surrounding (Picardy in north, Pays of Caux in the west and Vexin in south-east). Erosion formatted at the day the argillaceous layers in an area elliptic, which was worth to him the name of “buttonhole of the country of Bray”, bordered by chalky Cuesta S from 60 to 100 m of unevenness.
Geography
The country of Bray is rich of source S and from many rivers are born to with it, in particular the Epte and the Andelle, affluents of the the Seine, the Béthune, the Varenne and the Eaulne, affluents of the Arques, small coastal river tributary of the Manche. One finds there in particular hot sources at the origin of the thermal vocation of Forging mill-the-Water. The habitat is characterized there by the use of the Torchis and, since the 19th century, of the brick and the Tuile or the Ardoise. The traditional houses brayonnes differ from the houses cauchoises by the fact that the Torchis mask the doves except for the main beams.
The main cities of the country of Bray are Neufchâtel-in-Bray, Forging mill-the-Water and Gournay-in-Bray. It is before a a whole agricultural area. It produces in particular three AOC: the cheese neufchâtel, the apple-brandy and the pommel of Normandy. It is also in the country of Bray, with Tool bag-in-Bray, which was invented in the years 1850 the Petit-suisse, fresh cheese which made the fortune of the company Gervais become Danone.
On the plan of the communications, the country of Bray is served by the following principal road axes:
- in the direction south-be-north-west, the RD 915 which constitute the axis Paris - Dieppe and cross with Gournay-in-Bray the Trunk road 31 connecting Rheims to Rouen, directed west-east,
- in the direction south-west-north-is, the has 28, portion of the highway known as of the estuaries, connecting Abbeville to Rouen.
Surrounding natural areas:
- Country of Caux (in the west),
- Norman Vexin (in the south),
- Country of Thelle (in south-east),
- Beauvaisis (in the east).
Communes of the Country of Bray
The Country of Norman Bray is composed of 120 communes distributed out of 7 cantons (Argueil, Bellencombre, Forging mill-the-Water, Gournay-in-Bray, Londinières, Neufchâtel-in-Bray and Saint-Saëns).
External bonds
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religious and tourist Organization of the country of Bray (left Norman)
- Paysdebray.eu
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