Senay

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Coordinates: 46°32′25″N 5°34′48″E / 46.54028, 5.58

Hamlet of Senay

Location
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Map highlighting the commune of
Coordinates 46°32′25″N 5°34′48″E / 46.54028, 5.58
Administration
Country France
Region Franche-Comté
Department Jura
Arrondissement Lons-le-Saunier
Canton Orgelet
Commune Présilly
Statistics
Elevation 515 m–491 m
Population¹
(1999)
102
 - Density 9/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 39443/ 39270
1 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Senay is a village and a hamlet of Présilly commune in the Jura département, in the French region of Franche-Comté. Senay has maximum 8 houses out of which almost half are occupied by same family who own the land around this Hamlet. An ideal location for holidays with hills of Présilly behind it providing an ideal place for morning or evening walks. Nearest commercial area is Canton of Orgelet which has facilities like banks, cash machines, fuel station, hotels, restaurants, pharmacy etc. or you can go to the city of Lons-le-Saunier which is about 20km from Senay.

Présilly is well known for its vestiges of a castle dating from the 11th and 14th centuries where every summer open air theatrical shows are organized in the summer. The castle is surrounded by a discovery trail to recall what castle life was like.

There is an industrial zone between Senay and Orgelet where famous manufacturers like Verchere Plastiques (plastic manufacturing notably for perfume bottles and Janod (wooden toys made from the forests of Jura) and even factory for an American engineering company Pulse Engineering (company) (A Technitrol Company) have their establishments.

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As of the census of 1999, the population of Présilly was 102.
The estimation for 2005 was 107.

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