Le Perrey is a town in the Eure in Normandy region, a few kilometers northeast of Pont-Audemer and a few kilometers south of a bend of the Seine which is the limit with the department of Seine-Maritime.
It was officially created on 1 January 2019 following the merger of Fourmetot, the seat (685 inhabitants), Saint-Thurien (236 inhabitants) and Saint-Ouen-des-Champs (314 inhabitants), and therefore has nearly 1250 inhabitants.
Are territory of 21 square kilometers belongs to the natural region of Campagne, a plateau bounded by the Seine to the north and the Risle valley to the west, offering landscapes sometimes hedgerow, now formed an "open fields" that combines cereal crops and meadows dedicated to breeding cattle. It is furthermore observed even forested areas and some sites that evoke the Caux and cliffs.
The built heritage of the new town and its bucolic character, close to major tourist sites and the Norman coast, and is a great step.
In the town of Fourmetot, that crossed a Roman road in antiquity and which depended the Middle Ages the Abbey of St. Peter of Préaux, several sites are worth in terms of heritage eye. This is first of the Notre Dame church, which dates to its oldest parts of the thirteenth century, and whose style is both novel (tower and bell tower) and Gothic. At the option of a walk in the village and in the surrounding countryside, the Castle of the Hamel (XVI), the manor of the Crossroads and its finely crafted porch (XVII) and the farm of Epinay (whose foundations date eleventh) remained notorious after several resistant there were murdered by German soldiers on the eve of D-Day, are also to see.
On Saint-Ouen-des-Champs, the eponymous parish church was built in the twelfth century and rebuilt in the fifteenth (nave), seventeenth (bell tower) and finally the eighteenth (chorus). It offers a rich furniture (pulpit, altar) and many statues. The church is protected as historical monuments, as are the manor Vivier (XII) and the mansion of Kings thatched, high in the thirteenth of which there are still a large part of the house, a barn and a wine press cider. More curious, do not forget to admire in the village cemetery if a classified "remarkable tree" that gives the site an almost romantic appearance.
Finally, also in terms of heritage, the village of Saint-Thurien has a church rebuilt in the sixteenth century and whose bell tower was rebuilt in the XVIII and a castle of the eighteenth neoclassical style, which was completely restored in the heart a beautifully crafted park, all that now houses a hotel complex.
Next up for walks in a green and wooded countryside with rivers, which lends itself perfectly. Many tours are possible with possible stops from producers (cider, cheese) or incursions to the banks of the Seine.
Maps and information +33 2 32 41 08 21.
The territory is therefore ready to healing but it is also rich in events (exhibitions, workshops, themed walks) organized by the Regional Natural Park of loops of the Seine Normandy. Contact the +33 2 35 37 23 16.
