Avrilly, Allier

Avrilly

The Loire at Avrilly
Avrilly

Coordinates: 46°20′03″N 3°58′54″E / 46.3342°N 3.9817°E / 46.3342; 3.9817Coordinates: 46°20′03″N 3°58′54″E / 46.3342°N 3.9817°E / 46.3342; 3.9817
Country France
Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Allier
Arrondissement Vichy
Canton Dompierre-sur-Besbre
Intercommunality Le Donjon–Val Libre
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Claudette Delorme
Area1 11.48 km2 (4.43 sq mi)
Population (2013)2 142
 • Density 12/km2 (32/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 03014 / 03130
Elevation 234–312 m (768–1,024 ft)
(avg. 280 m or 920 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Avrilly is a French commune of the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Avrillois or Avrilloises.[1]

Geography

Avrilly is located 45 km (28 mi) north-east of Vichy and 10 km (6.2 mi) north-west of Marcigny. The eastern border of the commune is also the departmental border between Allier and Saône-et-Loire. Access to the commune is by road D989 from Neuilly-en-Donjon in the west which passes through the south of the commune and continues to Bourg-le-Comte. The D210 branches from the D169 in the north and passes down the eastern side of the commune through the village and continues south, changing to the D229 at the border, to join the D989 north-west of Bourg-le-Comte. The D265 connects the village to the D989 in the west of the commune. The D212 branches from the D989 in the west of the commune and goes north to Luneau. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Les Raflots and Les Simonins in the west. There are some small scattered forests in the commune but it is mostly farmland.[2]

The Loire river flows along the eastern border of the commune approximately forming the border as it flows north to join the Atlantic Ocean at Saint-Nazaire. The Canal de Roanne à Digoin also flows inside the eastern border parallel to the Loire. A number of streams rise in the commune and flow east to join the Loire forming many ponds.[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages[2]

 Luneau Vindecy
Neuilly-en-Donjon
  Avrilly  
Le Bouchaud Bourg-le-Comte Anzy-le-Duc

History

In a papal bull dated April 1164 Pope Alexander III, from his refugee in France, confirmed the Abbey of Saint-Martin of Autun as patron of the Church of Avrilly.[3] The Church was burned down on 15 August 1592. The monks also owned Rejus, a hamlet in Saint-Martin du Lac between the church and Champceau in the parish of Anzy-le-Duc.[4]

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[5]

From To Name Party Position
2001 2008 Marie Edith Perreaud
2008 2020 Claudette Delorme[6]

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2013 the commune had 142 inhabitants.[7] The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.[Note 1]

Population Change (See database)
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
492 441 410 484 424 482 454 458 518
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
523 512 491 485 497 492 456 467 468
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
451 428 408 367 335 350 326 315 315
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2010 2013
330 289 241 193 159 179 174 153 142

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Avrilly War Memorial

Sites and Monuments

Avrilly Church

The Church contains a Tabernacle (17th century) which is registered as an historical object.[8]

Avrilly Picture Gallery

See also

External links

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

  1. ↑ "Avrilly (03130): Public services". Habitants.fr (in French). SARL Patagos. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Google Maps
  3. ↑ Cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Martin of Autun: Chart No. XVIII. (French)
  4. ↑ Jean Gregaine: Journal of a bourgeois from Marcilly, during the League in Brionnais (1589-1596), MSE, Vol. 38, 1910, BNF-Gallica. (French)
  5. ↑ List of Mayors of France (French)
  6. ↑ Re-elected in 2014: "Liste nominative des communes de l'Allier (avec maire, arrondissement et canton)" [Nominative list of communes of Allier (with mayor, arrondissement and canton)] (PDF). Association of Mayors and Presidents of Communities of Allier. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Legal populations - Avrilly". INSEE (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  8. ↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM03000020 Church (French)
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