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Hesdin l'Abbé

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Pas-de-Calais

Population (2006)
  
1,950

Local time
  
Friday 5:09 PM

Region
  
Hauts-de-France

Canton
  
Samer

Area
  
7.39 km²

Arrondissement
  
Boulogne-sur-Mer

Hesdin-l'Abbé

Intercommunality
  
Communauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais

Weather
  
12°C, Wind SW at 8 km/h, 78% Humidity

Hesdin-l’Abbé is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Map of 62360 Hesdin-l'Abb%C3%A9, France

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated some 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D901 (formerly the N1 Paris-Calais highway) and theD240 road. The A16 autoroute forms part of the western border of the commune and the river Liane the southern.

Places of interest

  • The church of St.Leger, dating from the seventeenth century.
  • The eighteenth-century chateau d'Hesdin-l'Abbé, nowadays the Hotel Cléry.
  • A seventeenth-century manorhouse.

    • References

    Hesdin-l'Abbé Wikipedia
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