Chervettes

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Coordinates: 46°03′08″N 0°42′24″W / 46.0522, -0.70667

Commune of Chervettes
Location
Chervettes (France)
Chervettes
Administration
Country France
Region Poitou-Charentes
Department Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Canton Canton of Tonnay-Boutonne
Statistics
Elevation 13 m–32 m
(avg. 25 m)
Land area¹ 3.98 km²
Population²
(1999)		 124
 - Density 31/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 17103/ 17380
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Chervettes is a commune in the canton of Courçon of the Charente-Maritime department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.

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[edit] Bounding commune

[edit] Population

Year Population Change Density Percent of the canton
1962 84 - - -
1968 121 - - -
1975 105 - - -
1982 103 - - -
1990 95 - - -
1999 124 - /km²  %

[edit] Geography

The commune is located by the proximity of Surgères and Rochefort and Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

The communal area presents a large buildingthat goes from 20 to 28 m in height. The commune is strongly marked by an agricultural area that makes up of cereal crops. The drainage canal can be seen in the area. The agricultural countyrside includes the settlemenets of Chiron and Fief Rolland. The structure concentrates in the town north of the area. It compromises 82.5% of the population in 1999. The rest of the area compromises the two hamlets of Fief Rolland-Varzay (partly in the commune of Puyrolland) and Chiron.

[edit] History

An old viticultural commune, Chervettes is marked by an old viticultural properties with a closed heart. Since the outbreak of phylloxera at the end of the 19th century, the commune subsisted three small areas of winery. The church known as Notre-Dame-de-l’Assumption was first constructed in the 15th century. Around the commune, Chiron features a 18th century built mill.

[edit] Tourism

Its touristic activity are mainly restrained, notably on the important developoment project over the user of the old motorcycle and the collection called Surbier 2, the public aura of posibilities ensembles the rare pieces of the Italian origin. The Chinese moto are all placed in merit with the special room that prevents humidity. The particularity of the project makes up of possbile use for the terrain specially with the upgraded adapted technology. One of them was introduced in 2007.

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