Neauphlette

Neauphlette is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Neauphlettois or Neauphléens.

Geography

The commune of Neauphlette is in extreme cases western of the department of the Yvelines, to 16 km in the south-west of Mantes-the-Pretty.

The communal territory, relatively wide (972 hectares), extends on the plates agricultural from the Mantois at an average altitude from 125 to 130 meters, light inclined of the North-East towards south-west. It is drained by the valley of the brook of the pond which continues with the Ru of Radon, tributary of the the Eure which leaves the commune in the south to 109 meters of altitude.

The commune is bordering on Boissy-Mauvoisin and Ménerville in the North-East, of Longnes in the east and south-east, of Gilles in the south and Guainville in south-west (all communes of the the Eure) and of Bréval in north.

The habitat is distributed, in addition to the village itself, in several hamlets dispersed on the plate, whose principal ones are Couarde and the Cabins in the west, the Alder plantation and the Montaise Hedge in the west.

On the plan of the communications, the commune is served by the secondary road 89 which is the North-South axis of the extreme west of Yvelines and which connects Neauphlette to its Bréval neighbor. She is crossed by the Ligne Paris-Cherbourg (but the station nearest is that of Bréval) which borrows the valley of Radon to go down in the valley from the Eure.

The commune is also crossed by a Sentier of great excursion, the GR. of country of Yvelines.

History

The territory is inhabited since prehistory as a Menhir to it to the Neolithic time testifies, called the “Pierre-Gray one”, located close to the hamlet of the Cabins, still indexed in 1975. One also found in the communal territory of the flint tools and the polished axes.

Until the XVIIe century, the village was called Neelfleta . This name whose origin is not elucidated could mean “new small temple” or would be to bring closer to nielfa , the niello, bad abundant messicole grass formerly in the area.

Demographic trends

Economy

Neauphlette is a rural district whose activity is based primarily on agriculture, which explains the dispersion of the commune in hamlets (at the origin, of the farms located on the best grounds). The life of Neauphlette, until the XIXe century, was organized in car-subsistence, with the mills, the orchards, the apple trees with cider and even of the vines.

Culture

The church Saint Martin knew many transformations during the centuries: in IXe century it was out of wood; the first stone church, going back to 1177, will be burned at the end of XIIe century by Henri II, then rebuilt in XIIIe century by Neauphlettois themselves; the church will be finally altered in XVIe century. The XXe century is one period of suffering for the church Saint Martin: déconsacrée in 1928, furniture, the roof, the stones and the frame are sold in the years 1950: it remains then of this church only the high square tower of the bell-tower, placed against the old Western pinion and some ruins of the nave and the chorus. The bell-tower is restored in 1960. The current stained glass is a work of the XIXe century posed in 1998.

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