Ham is a small village to the south of
Cergy
Cergy () is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, in northwestern suburbs of Paris. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the " new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, created in the 1960s, of which it is the central and most populated ...
. The village used to be part of the
Sergentery and then
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
of
Neuville-sur-Oise
Neuville-sur-Oise () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northwest suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, created in the 1960s.
Neuville-sur-Oise is a rather anonymous village between Jouy-le-M ...
but has since been amalgamated in the commune of Cergy.
It is situated on the southern side of the
River Oise
The Oise ( ; ) is a river of Belgium and France, flowing for from its source in the Belgian province of Hainaut, south of Chimay. It crosses the border with France after about . It flows into the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a north-wester ...
and is linked to Cergy by a one way bridge. The area is rather flat as it is inside the last
meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank ...
of the river.
On its territory is the outdoor leisure centre Base de Loisirs de Cergy-Neuville.
Villages in Île-de-France
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