Cheney travel guide
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Visit Cheney: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Cheney is situated in the Yonne department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 31 km from Auxerre, the department capital. (General information: Cheney is 158 km from Paris and 371 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Tonnerre at 6 km from Cheney
Popular places to visit near Cheney: these include Tonnerre at 6 km and Tanlay castle at 12 km.
Abbaye de Pontigny (Pontigny) is a listed 'religious monument' at 18km and Jardin du prieuré is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 23km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Cheney, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Cheney
See France This Way travel guides for Yonne and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Cheney.
Note that all distances from Cheney shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Cheney holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Cheney (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).
For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in France and Yonne gites and villas
Tourist attractions nearby
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Cheney and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du prieuré (23km) : Jardin du moulin de Athie (44km) : Abbaye de Fontenay (44km) : Jardin du château de Barberey-Saint-Sulpice (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Noyers-sur-Serein (24km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Pontigny (Pontigny) (18km) : Eglise de Saint Martial (Seignelay) (26km) : Abbaye de Fontenay (Montbard) (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Neuville-sur-Seine (38km) :
- Heritage Sites: Fontenay Abbey (44km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Auxerre (31km) : Troyes (45km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Chatillon-sur-Seine (47km) :
Map of places to visit near Cheney & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Cheney
Canton: Tonnerre
Arrondissement: Avallon
Department: Yonne
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 89700
Distance to Cheney
from Auxerre: 31 km
from Paris: 158 km
from Calais: 371 km
from Nice: 533 km
from Bordeaux: 487 km
from Strasbourg: 291 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Cheney): Bernouil, Coussegrey, Dannemoine, Dye, Epineuil, Flogny-la-Chapelle, Junay, Lignieres, Marolles-sous-Lignieres, Roffey, Tissey, Tonnerre, Tronchoy, Vezannes and Vezinnes.
Getting here
Yonne is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into Paris orly or Charles de Gaulle airports and rent a car or drive from a channel ferry port - allow about 5 - 6 hours driving time. For driving distances to Cheney from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Cheney