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Country
  
France

Department
  
Pas-de-Calais

Canton
  
Fruges

Local time
  
Friday 4:30 PM

Region
  
Hauts-de-France

Arrondissement
  
Montreuil

Area
  
17.17 km²

Mayor
  
Christian Duflos

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Intercommunality
  
Communauté de communes du Canton de Fruges et environs

Weather
  
10°C, Wind W at 27 km/h, 62% Humidity

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

Contents

Map of 62140 Fressin, France

Geography

A farming village situated 14 miles (22.5 km) east of Montreuil, at the junction of the D155 and the D154 roads. Fressin nestles in the valley of the Planquette, one of several small rivers that flow through the region known as the 'Seven Valleys'. Mixed arable and dairy farming is the predominant occupation of the inhabitants.

Places of interest

  • Ruins of the fortress built in the early 15th century by Jean de Créquy, one of the first Knights of the Golden Fleece, counsellor and chamberlain to Philip the Good.
  • The church of St. Martin, dating from the fifteenth century. Large and impressive for such a small village. Two information boards tell in English the history of the church and village.
  • Another smaller chateau, dating from the eighteenth century.

    • Notable people

  • Georges Bernanos, poet and writer, spent his youth here until 1924.

    • References

    Fressin Wikipedia
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