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Le Ponchel (; pcd, Ponché) is a commune in the
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 ...
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Geography

Le Ponchel is situated west of Arras, at the junction of the D121 and the D119 roads, on the banks of the Authie river, the border with the department of the
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Population


Places of interest

* The church of St.Jean, dating from the eighteenth century. * An eighteenth-century watermill.


See also

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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):Ponchel {{Arras-geo-stub