Léguillac-de-Cercles
The French community Léguillac de Cercle, Occitan Lagulhac de Cercle, located in the northwest of the department of Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It has 306 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) and is one of 14 municipalities of the canton of Mareuil. Your municipality also forms an integral part of the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.
Etymology
The place name Léguillac, Occitan Lagulhac, possibly dates back to the Gallo-Roman personal names Aquilius. Cercle or Cercle is a southwestern neighboring community. Another hypothesis sees Léguillac or Lagulhac as a contraction of the Occitan agulha (French aiguille ) with the meaning needle.
Geography
The community Léguillac -de- Cercle is located ten kilometers west-north- west of Brantome and eight kilometers south-west of Mareuil (air line). It is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:
- Monsec in the North
- Saint- Félix -de- Bourdeilles in the Northeast
- La Gonterie - Boulouneix in the East
- Paussac -et -Saint -Vivien in the southeast
- Saint -Just in the south
- Cercle in the southwest
- La Chapelle- Montabourlet in the West
- Vieux -Mareuil in the northwest.
Léguillac -de- Cercle is the southernmost town in the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park. It is next to the center of the following hamlets, farms and a mill:
Baroden, Chez Denis, Chez Jaille, Chez l' Abbé, Chez Parot, Chez Pichote, Chez Pouyade, Combe- Jolive, Franchères, Jovelle, La Bidalie, La Conturie, La Croze, La Forêt, La Gauterie, Laubanélie, Le Banchereau, Le Barbaris, Le Bost, Le Brouillac, Le Grand Moulin, Le Paillassou, Le Petit Clos, Les Piles, Les Potences, Les Réteries, Les Sudries, Les Tremblades, Loubazac, Maison- Neuve Maison Neuve de Puyremale, Mont Aubert, Puygombert, Puyrebuli, Puyremale, Richeni, Rochefolet, Saint- James and Servat.
The municipal area is drained approximately in the center of the Sandonie, a left tributary of the disease, walk south to Dronne out. The Sandonie rises in the north-west at Chez l' Abbé at 170 meters altitude above the sea. The Jallieu, a right tributary of the Boulou, rises north of Laubanélie and then flows to the east. The eastern border with Puygombert and Les Sudries is marked by the Boulou withdrawing to the south. A small left -sided dry valley of Sandonie south of La Conturie forms part of the southern border to the municipality Paussac -et -Saint -Vivien.
The topographically lowest spot 115 meters above sea level is located in the south near Loubazac at the Sandonie, leaving the municipality here. 's Highest points with 211 meters are located near the hamlet of Puyremale in the west and at La Gauterie in the Northeast. The maximum height difference therefore amounts to 96 meters.
Geology
The community Léguillac -de- Cercle is completely flat-lying sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. The layer system is part of the Gout - Rosssignol - Léguillac - syncline, the second Synklinalzug the pool edge. Oldest open-minded formation is the formation Angoulême - Lower Angoumien - consisting of resistant Rudistenkalken. It follows the Upper Angoumien, also rich in rudists. These two formations is lined on both sides, the lower Sandonietal, the Angoulême formation usually forms steep walls. Very hard Fossilkalke, sandy limestones and Austernkalke - On the Upper Angoumien the Coniacian sets. There is, for example, in the center, in the West at Servat, in the east at Puygombert and in the north at Les Réteries to. The largest part of the municipality is however underlain by layers of Santoniums - gray, platy, glaukonithaltige limestones of the lower Antons, oysters Schill leading Kalkmergel the Middle Antons and silty, glaukonithaltige limestones and sands and sandstones of the upper Antons. The foremost open-minded layer member of the Upper Cretaceous the Santon takes altitudes as with a La Croze, at Saint James and to Puyremale. The altitudes in the north- east, however, are covered by Pleistocene colluvium, mostly gravel river. Above are alluvial sediments of a former, facing southeast river system from the Eocene or the Lower Oligocene ( at Les Potences and northeast of La Gauterie ). The accompanying pebbles consist mainly of polished quartz pebbles that have been transported from the at Nontron pending in the northeast basement. The freight scree can also contain rare exotics such as Amphibolitkiesel, which suggest a very wide transport from the Massif Central out.
The Angoulême lineup was once mined in Sandonietal in several quarries as a valued component; today is only a quarry in operation (at Rochefolet ).
History
The oldest preserved building is the Romanesque fortified church in the town center.
Demographics
Source: INSEE
The population in the municipality Léguillac -de- Cercle declined until 1999, but seem to be back to recover a bit since then. The reduction at the community level here was slightly more pronounced than in the rest of the canton of Mareuil.
Attractions
- The Romanesque local church.
Infrastructure
Transport links
The center of Léguillac -de- Cercle is located on the runs in the south direction D 93 of Vieux-Mareuil after Paussac. The D 93 is just north of the center of the D 84 of Nontron after Verteillac crossed. The D 100 E connects the village to the northwest with Gout - Rossignol. Two local roads leave the village to Saint -Félix -de- Bourdeilles and La - Gonterie - Boulouneix.
Distance footpath
The GR 36 from Brantome to La Rochebeaucourt -et- Argentine crosses the area Léguillac -de- Cercle from southeast to northwest.