Saint-Pierre-les-Étieux
Encyclopedia
Saint-Pierre-les-Étieux is a commune
in the Cher department in the Centre region
of France
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, some 28 miles (45.1 km) southeast of Bourges
near the junction of the D136 with the D6 and D951 roads.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Cher department in the Centre region
Régions of France
France is divided into 27 administrative regions , 22 of which are in Metropolitan France, and five of which are overseas. Corsica is a territorial collectivity , but is considered a region in mainstream usage, and is even shown as such on the INSEE website...
of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Geography
A farming area comprising the village and several hamlets situated by the banks of the small river Marmande and the canal de BerryCanal de Berry
The Canal de Berry is a disused canal in France which links the Canal latéral à la Loire at Marseilles-lès-Aubigny with the Cher at Noyers rejoining the Loire near Tours. With a branch from Montluçon it provided of canal with locks wide from 1840 until its closure in 1955...
, some 28 miles (45.1 km) southeast of Bourges
Bourges
Bourges is a city in central France on the Yèvre river. It is the capital of the department of Cher and also was the capital of the former province of Berry.-History:...
near the junction of the D136 with the D6 and D951 roads.
Population
Places of interest
- The church of St.Pierre, dating from the twelfth century.
- A fifteenth century manorhouse.
- Two eighteenth century houses.
- An old stone cross.
- A watermillWatermillA watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour, lumber or textile production, or metal shaping .- History :...
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