Montmain (Seine-Maritime)

Montmain is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy.

Geography

The village is distant of 11 km Rouen, 3 km Boos and 10 km of the Andelle.

It is a commune of 604 hectares, 29 ares and 60 centiares including one great part is still wooded. Altitude lies between 67 and 160 meters.

In the geological plan, the ground is composed of a layer of silt, heavy and not very thick topsoil (sometimes 40 cm) to the top of a layer of clay with flint, then of a layer of marl, this one is, moreover, visible with ground flower at some places.

The commune is entirely included in the catchment area of the Aubette. The rainwater streams through the wood of the Carthusian monks in the south and the coast with the Priests in north, towards the valley of the Bus shelter (Épinay and Saint-Aubin-Épinay).

Montmain is one of the 15 common S of the Canton of Boos.

Montmain has just joined at January 1st, 2007 the Agglomeration of Rouen.

History

Montmain , Mount Middle finger, Assembles Maïen, - with saying some, the Mount in the middle of the plain or the average mount - is a Village whose origin would go back to 800 years. It sheltered 60 fires then. A barn dîmière pertaining to the priory of Beaulieu existed then and gave its name to the hamlet of the Beaulieu Barn.

The church is quoted since 1240.

In the archaeological plan, one evokes a stone supposed druidic and the passage of a Roman Voie which one can think that it followed the gully which goes from Saint-Aubin-Épinay to Bois of Ennebourg.

The presence of a feudal mound would be at the origin of the hamlet of the High Mound.

At the XVIIIe century, one counted 47 inhabitants with the Hameau of the Beaulieu Barn, 160 with the district of Montmain and 63 with the hamlet of the Guérard Well.

At the beginning of the XXe century, Montmain counted approximately 300 inhabitants (75 fires). It is of this time which date the typical brick houses from the local rural architecture.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Gardens of Angelica
Museum of the mechanical music

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Seine-Maritime

External bonds

Official site of the city
Montmain on the site of the national geographical Institute
Montmain on the site of INSEE
Montmain on the site of Quid
Localization of Montmain on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Montmain on Mapquest

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