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Country
  
France

Department
  
Pas-de-Calais

Intercommunality
  
Auxillois

Area
  
27.08 km²

Arrondissement
  
Arras

Region
  
Hauts-de-France

Canton
  
Auxi-le-Château

Population (2009)
  
2,920

Local time
  
Friday 8:43 AM

Auxi-le-Château

Weather
  
6°C, Wind SE at 18 km/h, 82% Humidity

Auxi-le-Château is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

Contents

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Geography

A farming town located 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D938, D933 and D941 roads. The Authie river flows through the town, which once divided the commune into two parts, one in the Pas-de-Calais and the other in the Somme department. It is so named because it was a border fort, but there is now no sign of a castle, apart from some ruins at the top of the Chemin de la Belle Inutile.

Sights

  • Tha Saint Martin's church (16th century)
  • The neo-Gothic Town Hall.
  • The ruins of a 12th-century castle.
  • Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses.
  • Watermills.
  • The Museum of Arts and Folklife, in a former rectory.
  • The neo-Gothic church of St.Martin, dating from the fifteenth century.
  • Two 19th-century chapels.

    • References

    Auxi-le-Château Wikipedia
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