Sillé-le-Guillaume

Sillé-le-Guillaume
Sillé-le-Guillaume

Coordinates: 48°11′03″N 0°07′41″W / 48.1842°N 0.1281°W / 48.1842; -0.1281Coordinates: 48°11′03″N 0°07′41″W / 48.1842°N 0.1281°W / 48.1842; -0.1281
Country France
Region Pays de la Loire
Department Sarthe
Arrondissement Mamers
Canton Sillé-le-Guillaume (chef-lieu)
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Pays de Sillé
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Jean-Marie Hoguet
Area1 12.90 km2 (4.98 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 2,360
  Density 180/km2 (470/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 72334 / 72140
Elevation 115–260 m (377–853 ft)
Website www.sille-le-guillaume.fr

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.

Sillé-le-Guillaume is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France, named after Guillaume de Sillé.

In the fifteenth century the lord of the manor was Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk (1380–1459), following the English conquest of Normandy and Maine.

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