| Les Ayvelles | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Les Ayvelles.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Charleville-Mézières |
| Canton: | Nouvion-sur-Meuse |
| Insee: | 08040 |
| Postal Code: | 08000 |
| Mayor: | Sylvia Tucci[1] |
| Term: | 2023 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | CA Ardenne Métropole |
| Coordinates: | 49.7222°N 4.7578°W |
| Elevation M: | 155 |
| Elevation Min M: | 143 |
| Elevation Max M: | 210 |
| Area Km2: | 5.45 |
Les Ayvelles (in French pronounced as /le.z‿ɛvɛl/) is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France.
Les Ayvelles is located just 5 km south-east of Charleville-Mézières. Access to the commune is by road D764 from Villers-Semeuse in the north which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues to Flize in the south. The commune has large reservoirs in the east and a forest in the west (the Bois des Ayvelles) with the rest of the commune farmland.[2]
The Meuse river forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to Belgium. The Ruisseau du Pierge rises in the west of the commune and flows east to join the Meuse.[2]
List of Successive Mayors[3]
| From | To | Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 2008 | Robert Binet | |
| 2008 | 2014 | Jacques Bragantini | |
| 2014 | current | Philippe Lebreton |
The inhabitants of the commune are known both as Ayvelliens or Ayvelliennes as well as Ayvellois or Ayvelloises in French.[4]
The Parish Church of Saint Rémi contains several items that are registered as historical objects: