Escamps (Batch)

See also: Escamps

Escamps is a common French, located in the department of the Lot and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

in occitan

village with traditions occitane, ESCAMPS = ASCANS

Etymology

  • ESCAMPS means the fields, the plain (in occitan the camps (locality spread on the commune)

Geography

the inhabitants of ESCAMPS are called " escampsois" , " escampsoise". Commune being located in the QUERCY.
  • ESCAMPS is located on causse of Limogne (a calcareous area), on an average altitude of 300 meters.
  • ESCAMPS is located between Lalbenque and Limogne and has 22 km of CAHORS.
  • ESCAMPS is located on a peak dominating a doline locally called " canaval" (basin has deep and rich ground, where was cultivated hemp from where the denomination " canaval") with presence of many wells.
  • different hamlets: PECH OF HORSE, FARMHOUSE OF LAVERGNE, FARMHOUSE OF FRAYSSE, the CALOUSSADE, the ROSIERES, FARMHOUSE OF SOULIE, FARMHOUSE Of ASSOUL, FARMHOUSE OF BIGORRE, NOUELLE, the SMALL SQUARE, FARMHOUSE OF REBELOU, PIEPALAT, DOVECOTE, CAMPS VIELS, the BOUYGUES, the CROUZETTES, NOBLE COMBE, CAMP VIEL… etc…
  • ESCAMPS is located has less than one fifteen minutes of the exchanger of the highway A20 (CAHORS CUS)

History

  • Cardaillac-Bioule then Besse-Laromiguières were the suzerains or middle-class family.
The families of Concots, Auriole, Gontaut-Cabrerets ensured the direct seigniory which lived with the castle. Parish created in 1532, appendix of the priory of Concots until 18th.

  • Village founded with the locality (remains of Dolmen) " cazals" close to NOUELLE or during the war to hundred-years, after English had attacked LALBENQUE. The inhabitants of ESCAMPS went to protect themselves in a fort which was used as advanced station to the lords of CONCOTS on the current site of the borough or the inhabitants developed their dwellings after the war.

  • the apogee of ESCAMPS arrives at the 19th century at the time of mining or one took phosphate, the populations of ESCAMPS counted more than 600 inhabitants.

The old keep was partly dismantled since all its upper part was demolished in order to recover the stones in order to build the schools and their residences. Schools which for summer have transformed into village hall and Town hall.

  • During the 20th century, ESCAMPS will know a turning into a desert due at the end of mining and the First World War.

  • Aujourd'hui the commune of ESCAMPS knows a rebirth with a renewal of population and activities. ESCAMPS counts today more than 150 inhabitants due to the renewal of activity generated in particular by the proximity of a20 highway.

Communes bordering or close

Administration

Demography

  • Today, in 2007 the commune of ESCAMPS count a little more than 150 inhabitants.

Places and monuments

  • Place of the CAPILIE and the FORT
  • Sompes and various stone wells (see dolines)
  • Dolmen in Nouelle
  • hiking road " circuit of the sompes"
  • typical architecture of the causse (gariottes, cazelles, laundrettes, stone-built houses…)
  • brook of the waltz
  • middle-class house known as " of the Junior by ROZE"
  • church of the 19th century (ST LEONARD)
  • common village hall
  • being located in the regional natural park of causses of the QUERCY
  • In addition to the small inheritance built out of dry stones which is remarkable (fountains, sompes, lakes, laundrettes and gariottes), four buildings is to be noted:
- Church Léonard Saint - Vestiges of the medieval Fort and place of Capilié - Middle-class House known as " of the junior by Roze" - Old priory known as " of Rozières"

demonstrations and association

  • committee the festivals (festivals votive the 3rd weekend of July), (soiré new wine), (festivals of spring 3rd weekend of MARCH: race of endurance, evening aligot-bone of duck, course of gym, various demonstrations…
  • company of Hunting (lotto at the end of December, banquet)
  • club of elder (the hyphen Bach - Vaylats - ESCAMPS) the
  • Library (open Wednesday and saturdays) ready free of books (more than 3500 works). Library managed by association BCPE.
  • mass with the St-Léonard church of ESCAMPS (last weekends of the odd months and the 3rd weekend of July)

Economy

  • 4 building firms

  • 8 farms (sheep, bovine, horticulture, truffle growing, equine, poultry farming)

horticulture: " Flowers of Escamps" with Caloussade and " Scents of Quercy" with the Farmhouse of Fraysse

  • data-processing consultancy SITELLE SYSTEM limited liability company

  • tourism (rural lodgings, rooms of hosts)
  • 1 architect
  • 1 landscape designer

Personalities related to the commune

  • Bernard RUHAUD, writer

communal homonym

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle
One comes from Vaylats, the next commune is Cremps .


See too

  • Common of the Batch

External bonds

  • Escamps on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Escamps on the site of INSEE
  • Escamps on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Escamps on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Escamps on Mapquest

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