Auxi-le-Château (; ) is a commune in the

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department in northern

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Geography

A farming town located 28 miles (45 km) west south west of

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at the junction of the D938, D933 and D941 roads. The Authie river flows through the town, which once divided the commune into two parts, one in the

and the other in the

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department. It is so named because it was a border fort, but there is now no sign of a castle, apart from some ruins at the top of the Chemin de la Belle Inutile.

Population

History

Until the abolition of the

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in 1791, Auxi-le-Château was part of the province of

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Sights

* The Flamboyant Gothic Saint Martin's church (16th century) * The

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Town Hall. * The ruins of a 12th-century castle. * Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses. *

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s. * The Museum of Arts and Folklife, in a former rectory. * Two 19th-century chapels.

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