Paray-Douaville

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

Its inhabitants is called them.

Etymology: the name of “Paray” would come from the Latin , either of piretum , “planted place of pear trees”, or of bet , “wall”.

Geography

The commune of Paray-Douaville is in the southern point of Yvelines, in limit of Eure-et-Loir, with 24 kilometers in the south of Rambouillet, chief town of district and with 56 kilometers in the south-west of Versailles, the prefecture of the department. It is one of the six communes of Yvelines belonging to the natural area of the Beauce. It is bordering on Allainville in the east, of Sainville in the south, Aunay-under-Auneau in south-west, Orsonville in the North-West and Boinville-the-Strapping man in north.

The communal territory, covering a little more than thousand hectares is higher than the average yvelinoise (872 ha). It extends on approximately 4 km from north in the south and 3 km of are in west. It is a plate without relief which is with approximately 155 meters of altitude.

On the hydrographic level, no river is present.

The communal territory is primarily rural, to 96%. The rural areas are made up in arable land near total dedicated to the cereal field crop. It is far from wooded, approximately 5% of surfaces timbered in small dispersed pieces. Urbanized space represents 29 hectares (given 1999) that is to say 3% of entire surface, primarily made up of old individual habitat. A small zone of activity, 3 ha, is in extreme cases northern of the commune.

The habitat is divided into four groups, the village itself in the east of the commune, with the town hall and the church, the hamlet of Villiers-les-Oudets more in the south, that of Lenainville in south-west and finally that of the Small-Elm, close to the station, with the north-western limit of the territory.

The road communications are assured mainly by the Trunk road 191 which passes to the north of the village and gives access to three kilometers to the east to the highway has 10 (Aquitaine) thanks to the exchanger of Allainville. The local roadway system ensures the communications with the common neighbors.

The commune is crossed in its north-western part by two parallel railway infrastructures: on the one hand, in north almost in limit of the territory, the line Paris-Turns via Châteaudun, not electrified single-track line which, in addition to circulations freight, ensures FOR THE THIRD TIME a service road between Paris and Tours, on the other hand, with approximately 250 meters more in the south, LGV Atlantique. Paray-Douaville had a station on the line Paris-Turns, which had induced a small economic activity, but it is not served any more by the passenger trains.

History

The communal territory is crossed by an old Roman way, the “roadway Jules César” which connected Paris to Orleans (currently way of Ablis, directed North-South).

The parish of Paray exists since year 850, under the reign of Charles-the-Bald person.

It had at the 12th century a priory depend on the Abbaye of Clairefontaine.

The common one joined with its name that of Douaville in 1845, at the request of the lord of the manor, the marquis of Barthélémy.

Demography

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Economy

Rural district of Beauce, Paray-Douaville is the field of the cereal field crop which characterizes this area.

Culture

Architectural heritage

Saint-Pierre Church: grinding stone building of the 15th century, slate cover, partly rebuilt in 1777.
Castle of Douaville (18th century).
Old sugar refinery (unused), close to the station.

See too

Notes, sources and references

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