Lavenay () is a former
commune in the
Sarthe
Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the '' Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It ha ...
department in the
region
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of
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire (; but can also mean 'Lower Loire') is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital an ...
in north-western
France
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. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune
Loir en Vallée.
Arrêté préfectoral
16 December 2016 Its population was 301 in 2022.[
]
Geography
The Braye forms most of the commune's south-eastern border, then flows into the Loir
The Loir is a long river in western France. It is a left tributary of the Sarthe. Its source is in the Eure-et-Loir department, north of Illiers-Combray. It joins the river Sarthe in Briollay, north of the city of Angers.
It is indirectly ...
, which forms most of its south-western border.
Transport
The railway station is at ''Pont-de-Braye'', a hamlet south of Lavenay.
See also
* Communes of the Sarthe department
References
Former communes of Sarthe
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