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Aix-Noulette () is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
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in the
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region of
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Geography

A farming and light industrial village situated some west of Lens at the junction of the D937 and D165 roads. Junction 6.1 of the
A26 autoroute The A26 is a long French motorway connecting Calais and Troyes. It is also known as the Autoroute des Anglais (''Motorway of the English'') as its length forms the first part of the main route from the Dover-Calais ferries and the Channel Tunnel ...
is within the borders of the commune.


Population


Sights

* The church of St. Germain, dating from the 13th century. * The
feudal Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in Middle Ages, medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a wa ...
motte. * Remains of a
medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...
castle. * The three
Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...
cemeteries.


See also

*
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department The following is a list of the 890 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Georges Saupique Georges Saupique was a French sculptor born on 17 May 1889 in Paris. He died in Paris on 8 May 1961. Biography After studies at the Stanilas college in Paris and the lycée Henri-IV, he studied at Paris' École nationale supérieure des beaux-ar ...
statues of St Barbara and St Nicholas.


References


External links


Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension - CWGC cemetery





Website of the Communaupole de Lens-Liévin
Communes of Pas-de-Calais Artois {{PasdeCalais-geo-stub