Wierre Effroy

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Country France Department Pas-de-Calais Intercommunality Terre Deux Caps Area 18.91 km² Local time Sunday 10:07 PM		Region Hauts-de-France Canton Desvres Time zone CET (UTC+1) Population 747 (1999) Arrondissement Boulogne-sur-Mer

Weather 9°C, Wind NW at 5 km/h, 90% Humidity

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

Map of 62720 Wierre-Effroy, France

Wierre-Effroy is situated some 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D232 and D234 roads.

The church of St.Pierre, dating from the twelfth century.

The church of St.Laurent at the hamlet of Hesdres, dating from the twelfth century.

A sixteenth-century fortified manorhouse.

A Battle of Britain pilot was shot down and crashed in a field near to the village. Time Team dug this site in 2000.

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