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
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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(administrative division) 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 ...
Saint-Venant is situated some northwest of Béthune and west of Lille, at the junction of the D186 and D916 roads and by the banks of the Lys.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Venant, rebuilt along with much of the village after the First World War.
* The Hotel de Ville (Town Hall), dating from the eighteenth century.
* The civilian cemetery, incorporating a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery and the grave of
Edward Gordon Williams
Edward Gordon Williams (20 July 1888 – 12 August 1915) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action during the First World War.
Williams was born at Honiton, Devon, and educated at Eton and Trinit ...