Hesdin-l'Abbé
| Hesdin-l’Abbé | |
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Location within Hauts-de-France region  Hesdin-l’Abbé | |
| Coordinates: 50°40′10″N 1°40′55″E / 50.6694°N 1.6819°ECoordinates: 50°40′10″N 1°40′55″E / 50.6694°N 1.6819°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais |
| Arrondissement | Boulogne-sur-Mer |
| Canton | Samer |
| Intercommunality | Communauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Jacques Pochet |
| Area1 | 7.39 km2 (2.85 sq mi) |
| Population (2006)2 | 1,950 |
| • Density | 260/km2 (680/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 62448 / 62360 |
| Elevation |
7–130 m (23–427 ft) (avg. 11 m or 36 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Hesdin-l’Abbé is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Geography
A forestry and farming village situated some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D901 (formerly the N1 Paris-Calais highway) and theD240 road. The A16 autoroute forms part of the western border of the commune and the river Liane the southern.
Population
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Population | 724 | 789 | 831 | 1396 | 1880 | 1998 | 1950 |
| From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once. | |||||||
Places of interest
- The church of St.Leger, dating from the seventeenth century.
- The eighteenth-century chateau d'Hesdin-l'Abbé, nowadays the Hotel Cléry.
- A seventeenth-century manorhouse.
See also
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hesdin-l'Abbé. |
- Hesdin-l’Abbé on the Quid website (French)
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