Licques

Licques
Licques
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Licques
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Calais
Canton	Guînes
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes des Trois Pays
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Aliette Polaert
Area1	18.36 km2 (7.09 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,543
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62506 / 62850
Elevation	52–176 m (171–577 ft) (avg. 87 m or 285 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.

Licques is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming village located 24 km south of Calais in the valley of the Hem, at the junction of the D191 and D215 roads. It is a large producer of turkeys and other fowl.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
1296	1307	1389	1387	1351	1440	1543
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The eighteenth-century château de Cahen.
• The ruins of the château of Courtebourne.
• Vestiges of the 11th century Premonstrate abbey, nowadays the parish church.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Licques on the Quid website (French)