The Penfeld ( French pronunciation: [pɛ̃fɛl] ; Breton : Penfell ) is a 16 km (9.9 mi) French coastal river. The town of Brest , in Finistère , has grown up on its left (east) bank.
4-501: Its source is in the town of Gouesnou . It then passes through Bohars and Guilers (a village bears the river's name) before it flows out into the roadstead of Brest . The Penfeld runs along the former course of the river Aulne , shifted to the west by the opening of the goulet of the roadstead of Brest by the interglacial periods of the Quaternary Era . That explains its depth, which allows deep-draught ships to go quite
8-634: A way upstream, with tides running up it up to 8 m (26 ft) deep. At Brest, the Penfeld is crossed by the Pont de l’Harteloire then, some way downstream, by the Pont de Recouvrance , the largest vertical-lift bridge in Europe until it was dethroned by the Pont Gustave-Flaubert in 2007. In its last stretch, within embankments 25–30 m (82–98 ft) high, the Penfeld runs through
12-662: Is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France . Gouesnou is a satellite town of Brest . Gouesnou is twinned with the town of Brecon in Powys , mid Wales , enabling cultural exchanges to take place between these two Celtic regions. The Penfeld River has its source in this commune. Inhabitants of Gouesnou are known in French as Gouesnousiens . In 2008, 8.32% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools , where Breton language
16-559: The Brest naval base, and at its mouth (a site whose strategic importance has been recognised since antiquity) is the 15th-century Château de Brest . This Finistère geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in France is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gouesnou Gouesnou ( French pronunciation: [ɡwenu] ; Breton : Gouenoù )
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