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 northwestern
France
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. The inhabitants of Neuvy-au-Houlme are called les Neuviens or les Neuviennes.
Geography
The commune of Neuvy-au-Houlme is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Neuvy-au-Houlme and La Coquerie. The commune is spread over an area of with a maximum altitude of and minimum of
The river
Baize
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History
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runs through the commune, along with three of its tributaries, Bilaine, Ruisseau de la Fontaine Andre and Ruisseau des Vallees.
Land distribution
According to the 2018
CORINE
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Land Cover assessment the vast majority 51% () of the land of the commune is
Meadows
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. The rest of the land is
Arable land
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at 41%, 4% is artificial Green spaces, 2% Heterogeneous agricultural land and 2% is forest.
Places of interest
Neuvy-au-Houlme is the site of the historic
Thoroughbred
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horse breeding
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farm
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standardbred
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farm, Haras du Ribardon.
National heritage sites
Dolmen des Bignes is a Neolithic dolmen, on the communes border with Habloville that was classed as a Monument historique in 1931.
File:Chapelle Saint-Clair de Neuvy-au-Houlme.JPG, Chapelle of Saint-Clair de Neuvy-au-Houlme
See also
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Communes of the Orne department
The following is a list of the 381 communes of the Orne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):