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Saint-Laurent-des-Combes today consists of the history village, with its church and parish cemetery on top of the plateau, and the contemporary town which developed at the foot of the hill as a result of the attraction of the railway which arrived there in the 19th<\/sup><\/span> century.<\/p>\n

A little below the church there is one of the many little valleys which gave the town its name. At the top of the hill opposite stand the ruins of the Carri\u00e8res mill. To guarantee a constant supply of flour for the inhabitants, this mindwill provided added capacity during the summer on top of the town\u2019s two water mill (La Grang\u00e8re and B\u00e9ard mills), located on the Grang\u00e8re stream (at the bottom of the valley to the east of the church, on the boundary with Saint-Hippolyte). These water or wind mills, of which there are a considerable number within the Saint-Emilion Jurisdiction, recall the historic importance of cereals, which for a long time were planted between the rows of vines.<\/p>\n

At the foot of the Carri\u00e8res mill, there is another emblematic building of the Saint-Emilion countryside, and of the Bordeaux region generally: the vineyard shelter. These modest stone constructions, often with a fireplace and chimney, have one or two rooms to provide shelter for the wine-growers and their workhorse or ox, while they do the different jobs in the vineyards through the seasons. There was no lack of work: earthing up and ploughing the rows in winter and then in spring pruning and replacing stakes, wrapping, trimming and finally grape-picking to harvest the fruit of a year of hard work.<\/p>\n

At the heart of a land which is entirely devoted to the vine, Saint-Laurent-des-Combes has the biggest wooded area of the Saint-Emilion Jurisdiction. Of the 35 hectares (86 acres) of forest located to the south of the town, 18 (44 acres) were bequeathed to it just after the Second World War. The benefactor, Jean-Louis Faure, a professor of medicine and the owner of Ch\u00e2teau Bellefont-Belcier (below the church), wanted these woods to become the \u201cgreen belt\u201d of the Jurisdiction and a biodiversity reserve.<\/p>\n

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