Avrilly, Allier

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

Avrilly
Commune
The Loire at Avrilly
Location of Avrilly
Avrilly
Avrilly
Coordinates: 46°20′03″N 3°58′54″E
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentAllier
ArrondissementVichy
CantonDompierre-sur-Besbre
IntercommunalityCC Entr'Allier Besbre Loire
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Solène Carignant
Area
1
11.48 km2 (4.43 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
135
 • Density12/km2 (30/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
03014 /03130
Elevation234–312 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.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Avrillois or Avrilloises.[2]

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.[3]

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.[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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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.[4] 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.[5]

Administration
The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[6]

FromToNamePartyPosition
20012008Marie Edith Perreaud
20082020Claudette Delorme[7]
2020CurrentSolène Carignant[8]

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 135 inhabitants.[9]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 492—    
1800 441−1.55%
1806 410−1.21%
1821 484+1.11%
1831 424−1.31%
1836 482+2.60%
1841 454−1.19%
1846 458+0.18%
1851 518+2.49%
1856 523+0.19%
1861 512−0.42%
1866 491−0.83%
1872 485−0.20%
1876 497+0.61%
1881 492−0.20%
1886 456−1.51%
1891 467+0.48%
1896 468+0.04%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 451−0.74%
1906 428−1.04%
1911 408−0.95%
1921 367−1.05%
1926 335−1.81%
1931 350+0.88%
1936 326−1.41%
1946 315−0.34%
1954 315+0.00%
1962 330+0.58%
1968 289−2.19%
1975 241−2.56%
1982 193−3.12%
1990 159−2.39%
1999 179+1.33%
2007 165−1.01%
2012 146−2.42%
2017 135−1.55%
Source: EHESS[10] and INSEE[9]
Avrilly War Memorial

Sites and Monuments
Avrilly Church

The Church contains a Tabernacle (17th century) which is registered as an historical object.[11]

  • The Canal de Roanne à Digoin at Avrilly
  • Avrilly Landscape

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. "Avrilly (03130): Public services". Habitants.fr (in French). SARL Patagos. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  3. Google Maps
  4. Cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Martin of Autun: Chart No. XVIII. (in French)
  5. Jean Gregaine: Journal of a bourgeois from Marcilly, during the League in Brionnais (1589-1596), MSE, Vol. 38, 1910, BNF-Gallica. (in French)
  6. List of Mayors of France (in French)
  7. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  8. "Liste nominative des communes de l'Allier" [Nominative list of communes of Allier] (PDF). maires-allier.fr (in French). Association of Mayors and Presidents of Communities of Allier. 8 July 2020. p. 1. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  9. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  10. Données Cassini, EHESS
  11. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM03000020 Church (in French)
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