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 ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in the
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost Regions of France, region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its Prefectu ...
A small farming and light industrial town located 8 miles (13 km) east of
Arras
Arras ( , ; pcd, Aro; historical nl, Atrecht ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department, which forms part of the regions of France, region of Hauts-de-France; before the regions of France#Reform and mergers of ...
, on the banks of the Scarpe river, at the junction of the D42, D43 and D46 roads. The
A26 autoroute
The A26 is a long French motorway connecting Calais and Troyes. It is also known as the Autoroute des Anglais (''Motorway of the English'') as its length forms the first part of the main route from the Dover-Calais ferries and the Channel Tunnel ...
passes by just yards from the commune.
Biache-Saint-Vaast station
Biache-Saint-Vaast station (French language, French: ''Gare de Biache-Saint-Vaast'') is a railway station serving the Communes of France, commune of Biache-Saint-Vaast, Pas-de-Calais department of France. It is located at kilometric point (KP) 2 ...
has rail connections to Arras and Douai.
Population
Sights
* The church of St. Pierre, rebuilt, as was much of the town, after the ravages of World War I.
* The war memorials.
* An archaeological site of a
Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with t ...