Plessis-Grammoire

Plessis-Grammoire is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

Located at 10 km in the North-East of the center of Angers, the commune of Plessis-Grammoire covers 914 hectares.

With horse on three geological areas: the Paris basin, the Armorican Massive and the Valley of Anjou, it offers a very varied soil which explains the diversity of the agricultural resources: Arboriculture, Truck farming, Cereal S, meadow S of breeding…

Located between 28 and 42 meters of altitude, its territory presents a relief with the uneven ones little marked, of ten meters to the maximum, for some hardly perceptible with the naked eye.

The watersheds which cuts out the territory of the commune in three basins slopes direct water towards the Authion, the Loir and the the Sarthe.

The MINOR ROAD 116 ensures a direct connection the by-pass Is of Angers. The center of the city is with less than 10 minutes of Plessis-Grammoire. This common belongs to Angers the Loire Métropole.

Currency

This village like says it elsewhere its currency “Being without being far” is, without having the disadvantages of them, near to much of things…

to the city (Angers), of the companies (industrial Park of Plessis, of Saint-Sylvain, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre),
of the trade (local, but also of the supermarkets), of the spectacles (Park exposure of Angers),
of the main roads of communications TGV, A10, airport of Marcé), all that with less than 15 minutes, while preserving its quality of life.

Thus the commune has developed for a few years, with the arrival of new inhabitants and new companies.

History of the commune

Historical general information: Mentioned at the 12th century. Fusion with the commune of Foudon in 1791.

Origins

Before the Revolution of 1789, on the territory two parishes existed: Plessis Grammoyre and Foudon . They then constituted administrative entities independent one of the other, with their own borough and their church. With the Revolution, they amalgamated in only one commune. Of this past pre-revolutionist always a rather great number of old houses grouped in the vicinity of each church remains. The old road which crossed and connected between them the two villages calls today street of the Town hall , with Plessis, and street Saint-Jacob , in Foudon and constitutes a departmental way, the RD 113.

Boroughs

From this past the configuration present rises from the agglomeration.

It comprises two old centers, Plessis and Foudon, distant of one kilometer. Between the two, a recent dispersed habitat, spread out very irregularly along the RD 113, leaving by places the place to zones with agricultural vocation.

The old boroughs kept their plan of formerly: narrow streets, old houses, returns lack of alignment of the frontages, which is not without their giving a certain charm, but they little adapted to the motor vehicle traffic. If Foudon is presented in the form “village-street” builds on the road leading to Andard, Plessis is spread around the place of the Email. Its grouped plan probably rises from its origin of strengthened place, since such is the definition of the word plessis .

Demography

source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm (Population without double accounts). The population, with the last census of December 1999, was established officially with 2.013 inhabitants. It has had practically triplet for 30 years: it counted 750 people then.

It is a young population: less than 20 years constitute 30% of Plessiais and less than 40 years, 60%. The elementary school as for it, provides education for more than 300 children. The number of credits is around 800 people:

nearly 700 migrates each day towards the agglomeration angevine.
employment on the spot is about 200. Unemployment concerns 102 inhabitants, that is to say approximately 12,75% of the number of credits.

See too

Common of Maine-et-Loire

Internal bond

Site of Plessis-Grammoire

External bonds

Plessis-Grammoire on the site of the national geographical Institute
Plessis-Grammoire on the site of INSEE
Plessis-Grammoire on the site of Quid
Localization of Plessis-Grammoire on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Plessis-Grammoire on Mapquest

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