Craménil () is a commune in the

Orne Orne (; or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.department in north-western

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Geography

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Bois, Chênesec,La Morinière and Craménil. The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande. There are 3 watercourses that run through the commune, the River

Rouvre The Rouvre is a river in Normandy, in the Orne département, a tributary of the river Orne. It is long. The river's source is in the commune of Beauvain, a few kilometres to the east of La Ferté-Macé. After crossing the Pays d'Houlme, it tu ...

and two streams the Maufy and the Haie.

Notable buildings and places

National heritage sites

The Commune has 2 buildings and areas listed as a

Monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

*Four Bridges of the Rouvre a collection of 16-17th Century Toll Bridges, known as the Motte bridge, the Chênesecq bridge, the Neuf bridge and the Raulette bridge. The bridges are the last evidence of 16-17th Century toll bridges and were used up to the end of the 19th Century, beginning of the 20th Century, when the mills they served closed down. They were registered as a

in 1993. *The sharpener of Gargantua Menhir a

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

Menhir A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Br ...

registered as a

in 1889.

References

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Geography

Notable buildings and places

National heritage sites

See also

References