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Abilly.
 Commune:
Abilly 37160
Area: Center
Department: Indre and the Loire
Population: 1 123 inhabitants
Surface: 3 027 hectares
Altitude: 54 meters.
Historical
general information :
"Vicaria Abiliacensis", chief town of viguery mentioned in
Xème century. Church rested by the barons of the Hague and data
about 1096 with the abbey of Walnut trees. Old Bank priory, bench
in XIIème century by Robert d' Arbrissel, founder of the abbey of
Fontevrault.
Characteristics
:
Shelter moustérien of the Fields Parsnip: bones of animals, cut
flints. Neolithic habitats with the Rocks and Small-Paulmy. Manor
of the Ventilation hole: home XVème century, wing in return of square
XVIème century, circular tower, ruins of the vault castrale XIIème
century. Castle of Bessé XVème century: ditches dug in the rock.
Manor of the Bridge of Abilly XVème century: rectangular home, polygonal
turret of staircase, two altered houses, terrace. Castle of the
Wood of Aix 1912. Church Saint Martin's day XIIème century, altered
XVIème century: nave and collateral with modern vaults, vault seigneuriale
XVIème century, transept XIIème century, covered square of a cupola,
pilot wheels in cradle, apse in half dome with absidioles, square
bell-tower XIIème century, cornice with let us modillons carved;
furniture coming from the Bank priory (pulpit XVIIème century, stoup).
Remainders of the Bank priory: old church XIIème century (barn),
building XIIème century altered XVème century flanked of a square
turret of angle. Valley of Hollow, with its confluence with Claise.
Small valley of Brignon, flow of Claise. Drink. Tourist road racing
set.
Resources
and productions :
Cereals, seedbed. Breeding. Co-operative Bank dairy. Flour
mills. Foundries of Abilly. Sawmill.
Local life
:
Market: Tuesday.
Employers' festival: third Sunday of August.
Drive out, pedestrian fishings, bicycle touring, excursions, sporting
equipment. Camp-site, lodgings rural. Cottage industry.
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