Gressey

Gressey is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately 24 km in the south-west of Mantes-the-Pretty.

The name of “Gressey” could come from the Latin gresiacum , sandstone. __TOC

Geography

Located at the limit of the department of Eure-et-Loir, the commune is bordering on the Saint-Lubin-of-the-Hague in the west, of Boissets and Civry-the-Forest in north, of Richebourg in the east and Houdan in the south.

History

The November 17th 1870, in a field close to the hamlet of the Pond, nine inhabitants of the village, old from 17 to 43 years, were shot by furious German soldiers to have lost men around Berchères-on-Vesgre. The war memorial of common was set up with the site of this murder (see, in the chapter " Galerie" will infra, by increasing the image of the war memorial, the names and ages of condemned).

Economy

Primarily agricultural commune.

Culture, inheritance

Saint-Pierre Church: Romance church of the 12th century
Mare with the Saint-Pierre hole (close to the church)
Lavoir builds in 1881

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