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Cauchy à la Tour

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Pas-de-Calais

Population (1999)
  
2,856

Local time
  
Tuesday 12:40 AM

Region
  
Hauts-de-France

Canton
  
Auchel

Area
  
3.13 km²

Arrondissement
  
Béthune

Cauchy-à-la-Tour

Intercommunality
  
Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois

Weather
  
6°C, Wind W at 18 km/h, 86% Humidity

Cauchy-à-la-Tour is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Contents

Map of Cauchy-%C3%A0-la-Tour, France

Geography

A farming and ex-coalmining village some 10 miles (16.1 km) southwest of Béthune and 30 miles (48.3 km) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D183 and the D341 roads.

Places of interest

  • The church of Saint-Pierre, rebuilt after the First World War.
  • The war memorial.
  • Ruins of an old castle.

    • Notable people

  • Philippe Pétain, marshal of France, was born here on the 24 April 1856.

    • References

    Cauchy-à-la-Tour Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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