Ambleville (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃bləvil] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.

[3] The main route to the commune is the D699 road from Angoulême to Archiac, Pons, and Jonzac via Châteauneuf.

The population is distributed in twenty hamlets or "villages" - the term used in Saintonge and the South-West of France.

The two major population centres are: le Château and la Motte both near the village near the road to Chateauneuf.

[5] The commune is made up of Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) chalk limestone, which covers a large part of the South Charente.

[6][7][8] The communal land has a quite hilly relief which rises gradually to reach, at its northern end near the hamlet of la Voûte, a height 95 m. The small Collinaud valley in the south of the commune is located where the town and the main road are.

Two small intermittent streams descend from both sides of the Castle to join the Collinaud near the village.

Further west the Font Moreau rises while further east les Boulots flows down from Sonneville.

[12] The commune has been occupied since ancient times as proto-historic ditches have been found: circular at Moulin du Guineuf and oval at a place called le Guineuf - a rounded shape that may be a tumulus which has been leveled - near the Ambleville church to the east.

the Marquise of Archiac left a daughter, Jacquette, who married Pierre Jourdain and transmitted to him the ownership of Ambleville.

In 1621 he lent his support to the Duke of Épernon to raise a body of troops to besiege the city of La Rochelle.

The latter never married and was killed in a duel by Mr. Saint-Léger Corbon and Ambleville passed to the house of Pons represented by Charles Amanieu the Marquis d'Albret who was his nephew.

He shot himself on 5 August 1678 and his widow remarried to Charles, Viscount of Marsan who was the youngest son of the Count of Harcourt.

Several children were born of this union including Jacques-Henri de Lorraine-Lixin who received a share of the land of Ambleville.

Blazon: Quarterly, first and fourth Azure, a tower Argent port the same embattled of 7 pieces and masoned in sable, in chief gules charged with three helmets in profile visor open of Or; second and third Or, a dolphin azure crested, barbed, finned, and eared of gules.

Trades in Ambleville are a carpenter-cabinetmaker, a bricklayer, a plasterer, and a garage for cars and agricultural machinery.

Communal associations are: The commune has many sites that are registered as historical monuments: The commune has several religious sites that are registered as historical monuments: The Church of Saint Peter (12th century)[39] was the main element of a Benedictine priory.

The choir with a flat chevet is surmounted by a vault from the late 15th century mounted on heavy ribs.

The side walls are pierced with fake square arches leading into two Gothic chapels with two bays extending along the nave.

The South has three keyhole arches and three columns with capitals decorated with small leaves from the end of the 14th century.

The inhabitants of the commune were attached to their bell and its particular tone and convinced the new revolutionary authorities to maintain it, saying it was useful to them to tell them the changes in the new Republican calendar.