Ham is a small village to the south of
Cergy
Cergy () is a commune in the French department of Val-d'Oise, to the northwest 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 commun ...
. The village used to be part of the
Sergentery and then
commune of
Neuville-sur-Oise
Neuville-sur-Oise () is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northwest suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the "new town#France, new town" of Cergy-Pontoise, created in the 1960s.
Neuville-sur-Oise is a rathe ...
but has since been amalgamated in the commune of Cergy.
It is situated on the southern side of the
River Oise 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 (geography), channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erosion, erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank (cut bank, cut bank or river cl ...
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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