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Country
  
France

Department
  
Pas-de-Calais

Intercommunality
  
Artois

Area
  
6.03 km²

Local time
  
Saturday 4:37 AM

Region
  
Hauts-de-France

Canton
  
Houdain

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Population
  
331 (1999)

Arrondissement
  
Béthune

Gauchin-Légal

Weather
  
4°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 90% Humidity

Gauchin-Légal (or Gauchin-le-Gal) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Map of 62150 Gauchin-L%C3%A9gal, France

Geography

A farming village situated some 10 miles (16.1 km) south of Béthune and 29 miles (46.7 km) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D73 and the D341 roads. A small stream, the ‘ruisseau Caucourt’, a tributary of the river Lawe, flows through the village.

Places of interest

  • "Le Gal", a sandstone rock chained to another on the village square.
  • The church of St. Joseph, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • The eighteenth-century château.

    • References

    Gauchin-Légal Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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