Hesdin-l'Abbé

Hesdin-l’Abbé
Commune
The chateau of Cléry, in Hesdin-l'Abbé
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 50°40′10″N 1°40′55″E / 50.6694°N 1.6819°E / 50.6694; 1.6819Coordinates: 50°40′10″N 1°40′55″E / 50.6694°N 1.6819°E / 50.6694; 1.6819
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Outreau
Intercommunality	CA du Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacques Pochet
Area 1	7.39 km2 (2.85 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	1,911
• Density	260/km2 (670/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62448 /62360
Elevation	7–130 m (23–427 ft) (avg. 11 m or 36 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Hesdin-l’Abbé is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography[]

A forestry and farming village situated some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D901 (formerly the N1 Paris-Calais highway) and theD240 road. The A16 autoroute forms part of the western border of the commune and the river Liane the southern.

Population[]

Places of interest[]

• The church of St.Leger, dating from the seventeenth century.
• The eighteenth-century chateau d'Hesdin-l'Abbé, nowadays the Hotel Cléry.
• A seventeenth-century manorhouse.

See also[]

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References[]

• INSEE commune file

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