Morvillers

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Morvillers
Morvillers (France)
Morvillers
region Hauts-de-France
Department Oise
Arrondissement Beauvais
Canton Grandvilliers
Community association Picardy Verte
Coordinates 49 ° 35 ′  N , 1 ° 52 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′  N , 1 ° 52 ′  E
height 123-193 m
surface 10.80 km 2
Residents 476 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 44 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 60380
INSEE code

Manor house

Morvillers is a French municipality with 476 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Oise in the region of Hauts-de-France . The municipality is located in the arrondissement of Beauvais and is part of the Communauté de communes de la Picardie Verte and the canton of Grandvilliers .

geography

The community, a street village, is located on the eastern edge of the Pays de Bray around 13 kilometers southeast of Formerie and four kilometers north of Songeons .

Residents

Development of the population
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011
386 396 403 388 395 399 430 439

administration

Mayor ( maire ) has been Gilles Notteboom since 2008.

Attractions

  • Saint-Wandrille church, largely from the 16th century, with a Renaissance portal
  • Manor house, a post construction typical of the small nobility, registered as a monument historique in 2006
  • Mairie-école, a brick building from the 19th century
  • So-called chapel with a classical facade, now used as an apartment

Personalities

  • Maurice Dommanget (1888–1976), historian of the labor movement, was a teacher here from 1911 to 1948.

Individual evidence

  1. Manoir de Morvillers in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Morvillers  - collection of images, videos and audio files