Locmaria Grand Champ
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Locmaria-Grand-Champ Lokmaria-Gregam |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Morbihan | |
| Arrondissement | Vannes | |
| Canton | Grand Champ | |
| Community association | Golfe du Morbihan - Vannes Agglomération | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 45 ′ N , 2 ° 47 ′ W | |
| height | 52-139 m | |
| surface | 14.06 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,707 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 121 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 56390 | |
| INSEE code | 56115 | |
| Website | http://www.locmariagrandchamp.fr/accueil_locmariagrandchamp | |
 Ruins of the Château de Coët-Candec |
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Locmaria-Grand-Champ ( Breton : Lokmaria-Gregam ) is a French municipality with 1,707 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Morbihan in the region of Brittany .
geography
Locmaria-Grand-Champ is located around twelve kilometers north of Vannes in the center of the Morbihan department.
Neighboring communities are Colpo in the north, Locqueltas in the east, Meucon in the south and Grand-Champ in the west.
The place is away from roads for national traffic. The main road links nearby are the D767 (from Vannes to Lannion; in the east), the N24 (in the north) and the N166 (in the south-east).
The main bodies of water are the Loc'h River and the Camzon Stream . The municipal boundary partially runs along these watercourses.
history
The parish was created on December 14, 1889 by splitting off from the parish of Grand Champ.
Population development
| 1891 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 | |||
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| 604 | 422 | 480 | 451 | 573 | 615 | 733 | 925 | 1499 | |||
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Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Locmaria-Grand-Champ
- Notre-Dame village church (neo-Gothic) from 1885, with a knightly tomb from the 16th century
- Coëtcandec Castle ruins (inhabited until 1946)
- Calvary in Talhouët from 1889
- Keravélo wayside cross from the 19th century
- Saint-Eloi spring (1906)
- Pont du Loch bridge over the Loc'h
- Kerherve watermill from the 19th century
- Métairie Neuve long house from the 19th and 20th centuries
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Morbihan. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84234-009-4 , pp. 337-339.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sights of the community ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2015 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)
