Belfonds

Belfonds
Commune
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Location of Belfonds
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Coordinates: 48°36′41″N 0°07′07″E / 48.6114°N 0.1186°E / 48.6114; 0.1186
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Alençon
Canton	Sées
Intercommunality	CC des Sources de l'Orne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Pierre Rolland[1]
Area 1	14.29 km2 (5.52 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	208
• Density	15/km2 (38/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	61036 /61500
Elevation	170–245 m (558–804 ft) (avg. 215 m or 705 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Belfonds (French pronunciation: [bɛlfɔ̃] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France.

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Guichaumont, Le Haut Condé, Condé-le-Butor, Le Roussillon, La Fosse, La Philippière, La Perrière, Saint-Clair, Haussepied, Les Petites Bruyères and Belfonds.^[3]

It is 1,430 hectares (5.5 sq mi) in size. The highest point in the commune is 221 metres (725 ft).

Belfonds along with another 70 communes is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.^[4]

Belfonds has a total of seven water courses running through it, three rivers The Orne, La Senneviere and La Thouane. The other four watercourses are all streams, The Ponts Besnard, The Renardieres, The Iles & the Viverel.^[5]

The Commune has two buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique.

• Cléray Manor a sixteenth century manor house, that was listed as a monument in 2016.^[7]
• Saint-Latuin Chapel is the former church, of Cléray whose commune was abolished in 1802.^[8] It is believed that Latuinus, first bishop of Sées took refuge here to escape the hatred of the wife of the governor of Sées, jealous of his miracles.^[8] The bishop stopped at the edge of a fountain and built a cell and an oratory. The fountain is believed to have healing powers and on the last Sunday of June each year a pilgrimage is taken from the center of Belfonds.^[9]

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  Church of Saint-Latuin
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  Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
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  Chapel of Saint-Clair

• Communes of the Orne department

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