Alluyes

Alluyes stands on the left bank of the Loir, where its castle guarded a crossing on the eastern edge of the Perche. It was the chief place of one of the five baronies of the Perche-Gouët, a district of lordships between the wooded hills and the plains of Beauce. Its position gave the castle military value during the Hundred Years' War: English forces occupied Alluyes and the surrounding country for a long period in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The village remained gathered around the river and its old stronghold.