The Alluets-the-King

the Alluets-the-King are a common department of the Yvelines, in the area Île-de-France, in France, located at approximately 14 km to the west of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.

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Geography

Vast rural district, the Alluets-the-King is located in the Plaine of Versailles. It is bordering on Ecquevilly in north, of Morainvilliers in the North-East, Orgeval in the east, Crespières in the south, Herbeville in south-west and Bazemont in the west.

The commune is bordered in north and the west by the Forêt known as of Alluets.

In the road traffic organization, the commune is crossed of is in west by the secondary road 45 (Orgeval - Maule) and the secondary road 198 which leads to Crespières towards the south starts in the village.

In the railway plan, the stations the closest SNCF are the stations of Maule and Mareil-on-Mauldre.

Administration

History

The name Alluets drift of the word “freeholds” (of the Latin word allodia ) which indicates, in old French, of the grounds belonging to peasants and for whom they do not pay any royalty. Thus, the commune owes to its name “the Alluets-the-King” with a charter of frankness granted (allocated) in 1174 by the king from France Louis VII.

  • At the beginning of IXe century, a small community of peasants dependant on the abbey of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows described in the Polyptyque d' Irminon settled in edge of the large forest of Alluets to open a small clearing of clearing there. Beside one of the large seams (blocks of arable land being able to count several tens of hectares) seigneuriales great field of Maule, they occupy 4 there manses and 2 half-manses in a hamlet named Hostoldi Villa whose name is preserved today by the locality " Estouvilles".

Culture

  • Saint Nicolas's Day Church: church dating from the 12th century, square bell-tower, flat bedside, nave of five spans in semicircular arch with collateral; baptismal font, retable, gate vault out of painted profiled wooden, two statues of stone virgins of 12th and 14th centuries.
  • Old farm of Clairbois and New Year's Eve.
  • Sundial on a frontage of the street Saint Nicolas's Day.
  • prehistoric Vestiges of the Valley of Gally

Economy

  • Formerly, Grinding stone exploitations

  • Common Agriculture
  • residential
  • Station of listening of DGSE (large visible antennas radio by far, in the plain which separates the commune of Feucherolles)
  • Antenna-relay of television

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