Ferrières-en-Gâtinais

Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
The church in Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
Coat of arms
Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
Location within Centre-Val de Loire region  Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
Coordinates: 48°05′35″N 2°47′25″E / 48.0931°N 2.7903°ECoordinates: 48°05′35″N 2°47′25″E / 48.0931°N 2.7903°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Loiret
Arrondissement	Montargis
Canton	Ferrières-en-Gâtinais
Intercommunality	Quatre Vallées
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gérard Larcheron
Area^1	15.87 km^2 (6.13 sq mi)
Population (2012)^2	3,530
• Density	220/km^2 (580/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	45145 / 45210
Elevation	72–121 m (236–397 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Ferrières-en-Gâtinais is a commune (municipality) in the Loiret department in north-central France.

Ferrières was the site of the Benedictine monastery Ferrières Abbey, which had an extensive library in the Middle Ages.^[1]

Geography

The municipality is located in the Gâtinais region, north of the national forest (forêt domaniale) of Montargis, 13 km north of the town of Montargis, 81 km north-east of Orléans and 98 miles south of Paris. To the north the municipality borders the department of Seine-et-Marne. The Cléry, a tributary of the Loing, flows through the village.

The municipality contains the village of Ferrières and the hamlets of Saint-Séverin, Petit-Ambreville, Le Grand-Ambreville, Collumeaux, Egrefin, Birague, La Queue-de-l'étang, Tirelande, Le Perrocher, and La Grange Tascher.

See also

• Communes of the Loiret department

Notes

1. Mostert, Marco (1996). "The tradition of classical texts in the manuscripts of Fleury". In Chavannes-Mazel, Claudine Albertine and Smith, Margaret M. Medieval manuscripts of the Latin classics: production and use. Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-9626372-4-7.

External links

• [Commune website - did not renew]