Padoux

Padoux is positioned between Épinal et Rambervillers: nevertheless, it is administratively within the canton of Bruyères, some 20 kilometres across country to the south-east. Directly the west, and set in the Forest of Padoux, is the little village of Badménil-aux-Bois.
The Watershed/Drainage divide between the River basins of the Meurthe and of the Moselle runs through the commune. Two much smaller rivers that cross it are the Mortagne and the Padozel. The landscape and its customs are at a point of transition between mountain country to the east and the gently rolling landscape Lorriane Plain to the west. The soil type reflects a mixture of underlying limestone and clay, with very little Silicon dioxide. The result is a soil known locally as white earth and ashen earth : the latter are particularly suitable for growing cereals in general and especially for wheat.

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