Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe () is a former

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in the Maine-et-Loire department of western

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. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune

Les Hauts-d'Anjou Les Hauts-d'Anjou (, literally ''The Heights of Anjou'') is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. The municipality was established on 15 December 2016 by merger of the former communes of Brissarthe, Contigné, Cherré, ...

.Arrêté préfectoral
23 November 2018 It is approximately 175 miles (280 km) from

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. It had a population of 3,207 in 2017. The

river Sarthe The Sarthe () is a river in western France. Together with the river Mayenne it forms the river Maine, which is a tributary to the river Loire. Its source is in the Orne department, near Moulins-la-Marche. It flows generally southwest, through ...

flows to the east of the town near where the Sarthe and river Mayenne join to form the river Maine. Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe is to the north of the Loire Valley, an area famous for its historic towns, wine-growing region and cultural landscape. The local areas is heavily farmed both for arable and pastoral uses. Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe has a bus stop but no train station, but the SNCF station in Etriché is 5 km away. By road the town is 19 km from exit 11 on the A11 with good links to

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

(20 miles) and Le Mans (50 miles) The nearest airports to are Angers, Le Mans, Nantes and

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

; with the last two airports approximately 70 miles away.

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