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Location within Franche-Comté region
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| Country | France |
| Region | Franche-Comté |
| Department | Territoire de Belfort |
| Arrondissement | Belfort |
| Canton | Grandvillars |
| Intercommunality | Bassin de la Bourbeuse |
| Mayor | Jean-Claude Bourouh (2001–2008) |
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| Land area1 | 3.55 km2 (1.37 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 245 (2006) |
| - Density | 69 /km2 (180 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 90101/ 90100 |
| 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. | |
Vellescot is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Franche-Comté in northeastern France.
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The village is located on the secondary road départementale D13 which connects Belfort to Suarce and 16 km (9.9 mi) from Belfort. Primarily agricultural, it is surrounded by forests and ponds whose formation is supported by the impermeable clay soil.
At the Gallo-Roman time, a minor road connecting Delle with Froidefontaine crossed Boron and Vellescot. A section of a hundred meters length was updated about 1851. The first mention of the name of Vellecort is in the charter of equipment of the priory of Froidefontaine on 8 March 1105. The village then formed part of the town hall and the parish of Grosne and returned in 1125 to Frederic, 1e comte de Ferrette. For the Austrian period, which extends from the middle of the fourteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century, the name of the village was Germanized to 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.