Port-Villez

Port-Villez is a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately 19 km in the North-West of Mantes-the-Pretty and 5 km in the south-east of Vernon (the Eure).

“Villez” derives from a name of origin Norman, Wiesland .

The inhabitants are called Villezportains.

Geography

The commune of Port-Villez is located at the west of the department of Yvelines, the limit of the the Eure, on left bank of the the Seine, with a small enclave on Right Bank with the right of Giverny, is consisted part of the “large island” forming the confluence between the Seine and the Epte. It owes its name with an old vat which ensured the communication with Limetz-Villez on other bank.

The commune is bordering on Giverny in the North-East, of which it is separated by Epte, of Limetz-Villez in the east, of which it is separated by the Seine, of Jeufosse in south-east, Blaru in south-west and Vernon in the North-West.

The commune is served by the trunk road NR 15 which connects the Bonnières-on-Seine to Rouen. The secondary road D 89 connects the edge of the Seine to the plate. It is also crossed, parallel to the RN 15, by the railway Paris-Saint-Lazare - Rouen and has a halt served by some trains FOR THE THIRD TIME Normandy.

Very wooded (the wood of Port-Villez covers approximately 80% of its surface), the territory of the commune, located in the concavity of a Méandre of the Seine, is very broken. The edge of the river which leaves just the place with the transportation routes, road and railway, is leant with a imposing cliff.

The habitat is distributed between the edge of the river, with a score of meters of altitude, in the borough and the hamlet of the Large Valley in limit of Vernon, and the plate with 130 meters of altitude approximately for the hamlets of the Godon Oak in the west and of Our-Lady-of-the-Sea in the south.

History

Site inhabited since the time of the Neolithic as the tools of Silex show it which were found.

Possession of the family of Tilly of the 15th century to the Revolution, then at the 19th century after the Restoration.

Demography

Administration

Culture

Saint-Pierre Church: small church of Romance Style, hones Calcaire of it, dating from the 12th century, with bell-tower with half-timbering. Building restored in 1957.
House of the lockkeeper: stone building of the 19th century (the lock is unused).
Archeological site of the “camp of César” located at the point of the spur separating the valley from the Seine of the small valley of the “Large Valley of Acconville”, site occupied since the Neolithic until the top the Middle Ages.
the “oak Mister” located in edge of the road of the same name would have more than 700 years.
the site of Port-Villez was painted by Claude Monet ( the Seine with Port-Villez , 1894, Tate Gallery, London).

Economy

Agriculture and Sylviculture

Nature

The Sisymbre lying, Sisymbrium supinum , wild plant of the family of the Brassicacée S had disappeared from the commune of Port-Villez in the years 1980, probably in consequence of road works which had made disappear its natural habitat in edge from the Seine, on the sablo-muddy banks. Corings in the banks allowed retouver, fine 2003, old seeds several decades hidden in the deep ground, but which kept their germinatif capacity. So that the reintroduction of this protected space in its historic site is considered under the aegis of the Conservatoire botany national of the Paris basin (CBNBP).

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Common of Yvelines

External bonds

Seen air of the commune of Port-Villez on the site of IAURIF
Port-Villez on the site of IGN
Port-Villez on the site of Plane INSEE
of Plane Port-Villez on Google Maps
of intendance of the parish of Port of Vilez on the site of the files of Yvelines
the sysimbre lying on the site of the CBNBP

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