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Canton Of Nœux-les-Mines
The Canton of Nœux-les-Mines is one of the 39 cantons of the Pas-de-Calais department, in northern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 4 to 13 communes. It consists of the following communes: # Barlin #Drouvin-le-Marais #Fouquereuil #Fouquières-lès-Béthune #Gosnay #Haillicourt #Hersin-Coupigny #Hesdigneul-lès-Béthune #Houchin # Labourse # Nœux-les-Mines #Ruitz Ruitz () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. The trumpeter Alexis Demailly was born in Ruitz in 1980. Geography Ruitz is situated about southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille Lil ... # Vaudricourt References Noeux-les-Mines {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantons Of The Pas-de-Calais Department
The following is a list of the 39 cantons of the Pas-de-Calais department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: * Aire-sur-la-Lys * Arras-1 * Arras-2 * Arras-3 * Auchel * Auxi-le-Château * Avesnes-le-Comte * Avion * Bapaume * Berck * Béthune * Beuvry * Boulogne-sur-Mer-1 * Boulogne-sur-Mer-2 * Brebières * Bruay-la-Buissière * Bully-les-Mines * Calais-1 * Calais-2 * Calais-3 * Carvin * Desvres * Douvrin * Étaples * Fruges * Harnes * Hénin-Beaumont-1 * Hénin-Beaumont-2 * Lens * Liévin * Lillers * Longuenesse * Lumbres * Marck * Nœux-les-Mines * Outreau * Saint-Omer * Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise * Wingles Wingles () is a commune of the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography An ex-coalmining area, now a farming and light industrial town, Wingles lies north of Lens, at the junction of the N47, D39 and the D16 ... References {{Cantons of France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haillicourt
Haillicourt () is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A former coal-mining town, now a light industrial and farming commune, situated some south of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D188 and the D86 roads. Population Places of interest * Farmhouses and a dovecote dating from the seventeenth century. * The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the sixteenth century. See also *Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruitz
Ruitz () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. The trumpeter Alexis Demailly was born in Ruitz in 1980. Geography Ruitz is situated about southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ..., at the junction of the D72 and D86e roads. Population Places of interest * The church of St. Maurice, dating from the thirteenth century. * The eighteenth-century chateau. See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nœux-les-Mines
Nœux-les-Mines () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Nœux-les-Mines is situated some south of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D937 and D65 roads. As the name of the town itself might imply, it was established as a coal mining centre, however with the decline of the mining industry in the area Nœux-les-Mines has evolved to become a light industrial and farming town. History Nœux-les-Mines was first recorded in the 4th century as ''Vitri''. It was destroyed in 882 by the Normans, before being rebuilt in the 10th century, when it became known as ''Noewe''. It was part of the small province of Gohelle, itself part of the province of Artois, and was mainly an agricultural town with associated small activities incidental to farming, such as flour mills, sugar mills and breweries. The name was transformed from Noewe to Nœux-lez-Béthune over the years, but became Nœux-les-Mines in 1887, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labourse
Labourse () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A large farming and light industrial village, situated some southeast of Béthune and southwest of Lille on the D65 and the D943. The commune is also traversed by the A26 autoroute. Population Places of interest * A nineteenth-century chateau. * The church of St. Martin, rebuilt in the 16th century. * The chapel, rebuilt, along with most of the village, after World War I. * A museum, telling of the deportations of World War II. See also *Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department The following is a list of the 890 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houchin
Houchin () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A farming village, situated some south of Béthune near the junction of the D72 and the D171 roads. Population Places of interest * The church of St.Omer, dating from the seventeenth century. * The Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations m ... cemeteries. See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links The CWGC military cemeteryThe CWGC graves in the communal cemetery Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesdigneul-lès-Béthune
Hesdigneul-lès-Béthune (, literally ''Hesdigneul near Béthune''; pcd, Hédignu-lès-Bétheune) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A small farming village, situated some southwest of Béthune at the junction of the D181 and the D941 roads and one mile from junction 6 of the A26 autoroute. Population Places of interest * The church of St. Denis, dating from the sixteenth century. * The vestiges of an eighteenth-century chateau and its outbuildings. See also *Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department The following is a list of the 890 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hersin-Coupigny
Hersin-Coupigny (; pcd, Hérsin-Coupigny) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A farming town situated some west of Lens, at the junction of the D301 and the D65 roads. Population Places of interest * The eighteenth-century château de Coupigny * Ruins of an old windmill. * The church of St.Martin, dating from the sixteenth century. * The Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations m ... cemetery. See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links The CWGC cemetery Hersincoupigny {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gosnay
Gosnay () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A former coal-mining town, now a light industrial and farming village, situated some southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D181 and the N41 roads. Junction 6 of the A26 autoroute is about 1/2 mile east. Population Places of interest * The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery. * The church of St.Leger, dating from the 17th century. * The remains of two Carthusian The Carthusians, also known as the Order of Carthusians ( la, Ordo Cartusiensis), are a Latin enclosed religious order of the Catholic Church. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns. The order has i ... monasteries and a mill. See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links The CWGC graveyard in the communal cemetery Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, 890, and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,465,278 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 62 Pas-de-Calais INSEE The Calais Passage connects to the on the . Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouquières-lès-Béthune
Fouquières-lès-Béthune (, literally ''Fouquières near Béthune'') is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A farming and light industrial village suburb situated just southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D181, N41 and the N43 roads. The A26 autoroute passes by, just yards from the commune. Population Places of interest * The church of St.Vaast, dating from the eighteenth century. * An old manorhouse and an old farmhouse. * Three nineteenth century chateaux. * The Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations m ... cemetery. See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links The CWGC communal cemetery extension F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouquereuil
Fouquereuil () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A farming village suburb situated just southwest of Béthune and southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D181 and the D181E roads. The A26 autoroute passes by, just yards from the commune. Population Places of interest * The church of St. Nicolas, dating from the nineteenth century. * An old mill. * The Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations m ... cemetery. See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links Sandpits CWGC cemetery Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
