Hesdin-l'Abbé

Hesdin-l’Abbé
Hesdin-l’Abbé
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Hesdin-l’Abbé
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Samer
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jacques Pochet
Area1	7.39 km2 (2.85 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,950
• Density	260/km2 (680/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62448 / 62360
Elevation	7–130 m (23–427 ft) (avg. 11 m or 36 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

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

Population

Historical population of Hesdin-l'Abbé

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	724	789	831	1396	1880	1998	1950
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Hesdin-l’Abbé on the Quid website (French)