Warlencourt-Eaucourt

Warlencourt-Eaucourt
Commune
The town hall of Warlencourt-Eaucourt
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 50°05′00″N 2°47′27″E / 50.0833°N 2.7908°E / 50.0833; 2.7908Coordinates: 50°05′00″N 2°47′27″E / 50.0833°N 2.7908°E / 50.0833; 2.7908
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Bapaume
Intercommunality	Sud-Artois
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Lucien Guise
Area 1	3.71 km2 (1.43 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	136
• Density	37/km2 (95/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62876 /62450
Elevation	92–128 m (302–420 ft) (avg. 106 m or 348 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Warlencourt-Eaucourt is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography[]

Warlencourt-Eaucourt is situated some 16 miles (25.7 km) south of Arras, at the junction of the D929 and the D10E roads.

Population[]

Places of interest[]

• The church of St. Pierre, rebuilt, along with the rest of the village, after World War I.
• The Warlencourt British Cemetery, in which over 3,000 soldiers who died during World War I are buried.
• The war memorials:
  • A pyramid with a Catholic cross on the Rue du Calvaire. Erected on August 30, 1925 to commemorate WWI dead (4 percent of the pre-war population), also commemorates WWII dead.^[2]
  • Butte de Warlencourt memorial, commemorating the 1916 battle on the ancient burial mound^[2]

See also[]

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References[]

• INSEE commune file

External links[]

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• The CWGC cemetery

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