Langoat

Langoat Langoad
region	Brittany
Department	Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Lannion
Canton	Tréguier
Community association	Lannion-Trégor Communauté
Coordinates	48 ° 45 ′  N , 3 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′  N , 3 ° 17 ′  W
height	2-89 m
surface	18.50 km 2
Residents	1,154 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	62 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	22450
INSEE code	22101
Website	http://langoat.cluster1.easy-hebergement.net/index.html

Langoat ( Breton : Langoad ) is a French municipality with 1,154 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Côtes-d'Armor in the region of Brittany . It is part of the Lannion arrondissement and the canton of Tréguier . The residents refer to themselves as Langoatais (e) .

geography

Langoat is about 13 kilometers east of Lannion . In addition to the village of Langoat, the community also includes numerous scattered settlements and individual farms within the community. The southern and eastern municipal boundaries are in parts of the Jaudy River , the Guindy River the northwest. Another body of water is the Ruisseau du Stéren stream . There are also a few ponds on the eastern border of the municipality.

Neighboring communities

The community has a total of nine neighboring communities. Namely Berhet, Cavan, Coatréven, Lanmérin, La Roche-Derrien, Mantallot, Minihy-Tréguier, Pommerit-Jaudy and Quemperven.

Lanmérin	Coatréven	Minihy-Tréguier
Quemperven		La Roche-Derrien Pommerit-Jaudy
Berhet Cavan	Mantallot	Pommerit-Jaudy

history

Several Roman roads led through today's municipality. In 1347 the place was the camp of the reserve troops of Charles de Blois in the fight against the English. They stayed in Castel-Dû. In 1839, a small part of the eastern municipality was ceded to the neighboring municipality of La Roche-Derrien.

Population development

The municipality was one of the more important places in the 18th century and already had more than 2000 inhabitants. With the exception of the 1800 and 1841 censuses, the number of residents up to 1886 was always over 2000. Then the decline began with high numbers of people leaving. The low point was not reached until 1982 (1886–1982: −56.3%). Since then the population has grown again considerably (1982–2013: +27.5%).

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851	1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
2,307	1,878	2,085	2,109	2.140	2,349	1,803	2,296	2,385	2,328	2,357	2,308	2,219	2,243	2,060	2,047	1,955	1,817

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008	2013
1,820	1,867	1,751	1,575	1,652	1,584	1,455	1,246	1,212	1,208	1,062	941	894	942	1,057	1,128	1,140

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Langoat

• Mansion Kergaric from the 15th century
• 15th century mansion of Le Launay
• Traou-Rout mansion from the 16th century
• Village church of Sainte-Pompée (built 1768–1778)
• Notre-Dame du Bois chapels (15th century; partially 1592), Saint-Pierre (18th century) and Sainte Aurélie (1835)
• Calvary in Kervot from 1666
• Farm from 1773 in Le Cosquer
• Watermill in Vilin-Goz and 11 other mills
• Old Forge

• Attractions
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  The town hall (Mairie) of Langoat

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  Sainte-Pompée village church

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  Church window of the village church

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  Calvary in the village cemetery

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 1275-1277.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sights of the community ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) 

Web links

Commons : Langoat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Location of the municipality
• Information about the history and the sights (French)
• Sights on the website of the Ministry of Culture