Tardinghen

Tardinghen Terdingem
Commune
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Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 50°52′01″N 1°37′52″E / 50.8669°N 1.6311°E / 50.8669; 1.6311Coordinates: 50°52′01″N 1°37′52″E / 50.8669°N 1.6311°E / 50.8669; 1.6311
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Desvres
Intercommunality	CC Terre des Deux Caps
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Thibaut Segard[1]
Area 1	8.72 km2 (3.37 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[2]	152
• Density	17/km2 (45/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62806 /62179
Elevation	1–96 m (3.3–315.0 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tardinghen (West Flemish: Terdingem) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Landscape seen from the route du Châtelet

Geography[]

Tardinghen is situated some 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Boulogne, at the junction of the D249 and D940 roads, on Cape Gris-Nez. Parts of the coastline, forming the northern border of the commune, have receded inland at about 5 metres (5+1⁄2 yd) per year.

Population[]

Places of interest[]

• The church of St. Martin, dating from the eighteenth century.
• An eighteenth-century manorhouse.
• Vestiges of the Atlantic Wall.
• , local microbrewery.

See also[]

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References[]

• INSEE commune file

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tardinghen.

• The history of Tardinghen on Histopale (in French)

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