Fontenai-les-Louvets
Fontenai-les-Louvets | |
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Part of L'Orée-d'Écouves | |
Location of Fontenai-les-Louvets  | |
  Fontenai-les-Louvets  Fontenai-les-Louvets | |
| Coordinates: 48°31′41″N 0°00′02″W / 48.5281°N 0.000556°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Orne |
| Arrondissement | Alençon |
| Canton | Magny-le-Désert |
| Commune | L'Orée-d'Écouves |
Area 1 | 18.77 km2 (7.25 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[1] | 277 |
| • Density | 15/km2 (38/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 61420 |
| Elevation | 257–413 m (843–1,355 ft) (avg. 304 m or 997 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Fontenai-les-Louvets (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tnɛ le luvɛ] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune L'Orée-d'Écouves.[2] It is located in the Forêt d'Écouves in Normandy.
Points of Interest
[edit]The commune has the highest point in Normandy, called the Signal d'Écouves which is 413 metres in height.[3][4]
National Heritage sites
[edit]- Markers of Forêt d'Écouves a set of 80 markers positioned in the 18th century that mark the boundaries of the forest, they were registered as a Monument historique in 1987.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral 10 July 2018 (in French)
- ^ "A Fontenay-les-Louvets : le sommet de la Normandie". actu.fr. June 10, 2018.
- ^ "Géographie et montagnes : depuis l'Orne, où faut-il aller pour trouver plus haut que le Signal d'Ecouves ?". actu.fr. January 12, 2022.
- ^ "80 bornes de la forêt d'Ecouves (également sur communes de Le Bouillon, La Chapelle-près-Sées, La Ferrière-Béchet, Fontenai-les-Louvets, La Lande-de-Goult, Radon, Rouperroux, Saint-Didier-sous-Ecouves, Saint-Gervais-du-Perron, Tanville et Vingt-Hanap..." monumentum.fr.
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