Guiscriff - Wikipedia

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Guiscriff Gwiskri
Commune
The parish church in Guiscriff
Location of Guiscriff
Guiscriff Guiscriff
Coordinates: 48°03′02″N 3°38′39″W / 48.0506°N 3.6442°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Pontivy
Canton	Gourin
Intercommunality	Roi Morvan Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Renée Courtel[1]
Area 1	85.46 km2 (33.00 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	2,053
• Density	24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56081 /56560
Elevation	70–237 m (230–778 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Guiscriff (French pronunciation: [ɡiskʁif]; Breton: Gwiskri) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.^[3]

Inhabitants of Guiscriff are called Guiscrivites. Guiscriff's population peaked at 5,896 in 1921 and declined to 2,081 in 2020. This represents a 65% decrease in total population since the peak census figure.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,786 —     1800 2,695 −0.47% 1806 2,500 −1.24% 1831 2,786 +0.43% 1836 3,153 +2.51% 1841 3,016 −0.88% 1846 3,418 +2.53% 1851 3,570 +0.87% 1856 3,396 −0.99% 1861 3,452 +0.33% 1866 3,531 +0.45% 1872 3,558 +0.13% 1876 3,724 +1.15% 1881 3,754 +0.16% 1886 3,894 +0.73% 1891 4,330 +2.15% 1896 4,594 +1.19% 1901 4,060 −2.44%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 4,972 +4.14% 1911 5,380 +1.59% 1921 5,896 +0.92% 1926 5,525 −1.29% 1931 5,182 −1.27% 1936 5,063 −0.46% 1946 5,034 −0.06% 1954 4,222 −2.17% 1962 3,740 −1.50% 1968 3,377 −1.69% 1975 2,931 −2.00% 1982 2,734 −0.99% 1990 2,529 −0.97% 1999 2,394 −0.61% 2009 2,339 −0.23% 2014 2,228 −0.97% 2020 2,081 −1.13%
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Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (2009–2020)[5]

Historically, the village belongs to Cornouaille. The village centre is located 21 km (13 mi) north of Quimperlé and 35 km (22 mi) east of Quimper.

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  The parish church

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  Chapel Saint Maudé

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  Chapel Saint Eloi

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  Chapel Saint Antoine

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  Chapel Saint Tugdual

• Communes of the Morbihan department

• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Morbihan Association (in French)