Meux (Belgium)

Meux (in Walloon Meu ) is a section of the common Belgian of the Heather located in Walloon region in the Province of Namur.

It was a commune with whole share before the fusion of the communes of 1977.

Geography

The village of Meux is located on average Belgium, in the north of the province of Namur. It thus forms part of the Hesbaye.

More precisely, the village of Meux is located at 9,5 km in the North-West of Éghezée, its chief town of canton, and with 11 km in the North-East of Gembloux. It belonged to the canton of peace of Dhuy, of 1801 with 1848, date on which Éghezée took again its title and became again the seat of district court.

Its surface covers 1 218 hectares. It is stretched on nearly 4 kilometers since the limit of Liernu (" in the parts"), until that of Saint-Denis (" Bawtia"). It was after the village of Rhisnes which counted 1 320 hectares, the widest village of the canton of Éghezée. It is limited to north by Liernu, in the North-East by Saint-Germain, the east by Dhuy, south-east by Villers-lez-Heest, the south by Émines, south-west by Bovesse, the west by Saint-Denis and the North-West by Beuzet.

Altitude, with the threshold of the church, is of 173 meters. The dimension of 185 meters is reached in the west of the village, on the side of Laustaille.

The Mehaigne crosses the territory of Meux, but this village belongs by its Western part to the basin of the Orneau. Orneau, whose name indicates the valley of the flowering ashes and the alders, takes its sources to 800 m in the north of the Six-Ways with Large-Leez Meux and .

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