Vellescot
Vellescot is a commune of the Territoire of Belfort belonging to the canton of Grandvillars. The village is located on the secondary road D13 which connects Belfort to Suarce to 16 km of Belfort. Primarily agricultural, it is surrounded by forests and ponds whose formation is supported by the impermeable clay soil.
At the time Gallo-Roman, a minor road relant Delle with Froidefontaine crossed Boron and Vellescot. A section of a hundred meters length was updated towards 1851. The first mention of the name of Vellecort is in the charter of equipment of the priory of Froidefontaine dated March 8th 1105. The village then formed part of the town hall and the parish of Grosne and returns in 1125 to Frederic, first count of Ferrette. For the Austrian period, which extends from the medium of XIVe in the middle of the XVIIe century, the village bore the German name of Hanendorf .
Before the Second world war circulated between Belfort and Réchésy a railroad of local interest with metric gauge track which crossed Grosne, Vellescot and Suarce.
In 1999, the village counted 166 inhabitants; they were 180 in 1803.
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