Coignières () is a
French commune
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in the
Yvelines
Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the ÃŽle-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.[department
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Government and military
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,
region
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of
ÃŽle-de-France
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Geography
Coignières is situated southwest of
Versailles
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. Its neighbours include
Maurepas Maurepas may refer to:
* Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, French statesman Count of Maurepas (Yvelines)
* Fort Maurepas, also known as Old Biloxi, a settlement in Louisiana (New France)
* Maurepas, Louisiana, an unincorporated commun ...
to the north,
Mesnil-Saint-Denis and
Lévis-Saint-Nom
Lévis-Saint-Nom is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
See also
*Communes of the Yvelines department
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to the east,
Essarts-le-Roi to the south and
Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré
Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France.
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*Communes of the Yvelines department
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to the west.
The village is roughly 170 m above sea level, fairly flat except to the west where there is a valley with the
Mauldre
The Mauldre () is a 35 km long river in France. It is a left tributary of the Seine. Its basin area is about 410 square kilometres, which covers 66 municipalities corresponding to 400 000 inhabitants. Its source elevation is 135 m. The Mauldr ...
river which runs from the area called ''la Maison Blanche'' to the north.
Coignières is connected by
route nationale 10
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Reclassification
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(RN10), which traverses the commune from the northeast to the southwest, and given the amount of traffic it effectively divides the commune in two. Coignières train station is located on the
Paris
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–
Chartres
Chartres () is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 170,763 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Chartres (as d ...
train line and runs parallel to the RN10.
The commune is quite well developed with new housing and commercial zones near
Maurepas Maurepas may refer to:
* Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, French statesman Count of Maurepas (Yvelines)
* Fort Maurepas, also known as Old Biloxi, a settlement in Louisiana (New France)
* Maurepas, Louisiana, an unincorporated commun ...
and beyond the
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines () is a new town and an agglomeration community in the French department of Yvelines. It is one of the original five villes nouvelles (new towns) of Paris and was named after the Saint Quentin Pond, which was chosen to ...
region. There is also a large industrial zone (le Marais) between the RN10 and the railway line.
Part of the commune to the west is still a partly wooded rural area (Bois des Hautes Bruyères).
Finally, the
GR 11 footpath also cuts across the commune from east to west.
Education
There are two preschools and elementary schools, École Gabriel Bouvet and École
Marcel Pagnol
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, as well as one junior high school, Collège d'Enseignement Secondaire « La Mare aux Saules ».
[Établissements scolaires]
" Coignières. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
See also
*
Communes of the Yvelines department
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ...
References
External links
Home page
Communes of Yvelines
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