Chantenay-Villedieu

Chantenay-Villedieu
region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
Canton	Loué
Community association	Loué-Brûlon-Noyen
Coordinates	47 ° 55 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ W Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ W
height	35-101 m
surface	27.74 km 2
Residents	865 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	31 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	72430
INSEE code	72059
Website	http://chantenay.villedieu.free.fr/
	; Town hall (Mairie) of Chantenay-Villedieu

Chantenay-Villedieu is a French municipality with 865 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement La Flèche and the canton Loué (until 2015: canton Brûlon ). Their inhabitants are called Chantenaysiens .

geography

Chantenay-Villedieu is about 28 kilometers west-southwest of Le Mans . Chantenay-Villedieu is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Ouen-en-Champagne , Saint-Christophe-en-Champagne and Saint-Pierre-des-Bois in the north, Vallon-sur-Gée in the northeast, Pirmil in the east, Tassé in the south, Fontenay-sur-Vègre in the west and south-west and Chevillé in the west and north-west.

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2013
913	804	738	714	648	727	861	874
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Former Saint-Jean-Baptiste priory, part of the current town hall
Saint-Georges church in Villedieu from the 12th century, a historic monument since 1984

Former rectory

Former cemetery chapel

Saint-Georges church

The LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire railway line passes Chantenay-Villedieu immediately south, with no stopping points. The nearest train station is in La Suze-sur-Sarthe, 17 km away on the Le Mans – Angers railway line .

The A 81 in the north and A 11 in the south can be reached via departmental roads .

Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Sarthe. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-106-6 , pp. 296-303.

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