Localisation : 10 kilometers from La Feuillie

Population : 601 inhabitants

Name of Inhabitants : Beauvoiriens

Superficie : 3329 ha

Altitude : 228 m


City hall : Dominique RIMBERT

Place du Cdt Schloesing

76220 Beauvoir en Lyons
Tel/fax : +33 2.35.90.71.26

mairie.beauvoirenlyons@wanadoo.fr

Open on Monday from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm, and on Friday from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm


 2 village hall: 60/70 and 170/180 persons

For more details : Village hall


In the beginning

 

« Beau-voir »,  the name describes the city : «  Beau à voir » (beautiful place)

 

 

On the tracks of past…

 

The origin of Beauvoir is very ancient, probably from the first centuries of our  world.

 

 Heritage

 

Church :

Porch and timber frame (1761)

Stained-glass window of Saint Nicolas (1860)

In cemetery : Tomb of Commanding officer Schlœsing. His plane was shot down on august in 1944 above the village.

Viewpoint indicator  with a beautiful point of view and a area of picnic.

 Hamlet of Routhieux and of Croix des Mallets : Ancient glass factories

  Formerly, the big forest regions were important industrial areas. It is the case of the Foret de Lyons, that developed the glass industry. The glass factory of Routhieux made some window glass, bottles and small carafes. That of the croix des Mallets made some plain glass.

 

 

 

 

 Large wells in hamlet of Mont Réal.