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Estrée-Blanche (; vls, Strate) is a INSEE commune file
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Indian cavalry were stationed at Estrée-Blanche during the
Image:creminil.jpg, The château from the west
Image:criminil1.jpg, The rear courtyard
Image:creminil2.jpg, The towers and drawbridge
Image:creminil3.jpg, The château entrance
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France
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History
Indian cavalry were stationed at Estrée-Blanche during the First World War
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Geography
Estrée-Blanche is a farming village some to the northwest ofBéthune
Béthune ( ; archaic and ''Bethwyn'' historically in English) is a city in northern France, sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department.
Geography
Béthune is located in the former province of Artois. It is situated south-east of Calais, ...
and west of Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...
, at the junction of the D341, D186 and the D159 roads. The small rivers Surgeon and Laquette
The Laquette is a river of northern France, right tributary of the Lys. It is long. It flows into the Lys in Aire-sur-la-Lys
Aire-sur-la-Lys (, literally ''Aire on the Lys''; vls, Ariën-aan-de-Leie) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais d ...
converge at the commune.
Estrée-Blanche is found at the extreme edge of the coal-mining area of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Part of its surface area was owned by the mining company, which ceased in the 1960s. All that remains of that era are some typical miners' houses.
It is one of many villages in the north of France bearing the name ''Estrées''. The etymology of the name is from ''strata'' ( cognate of English "street"), the word for the stone-layered Roman roads in the area (some of which turned into modern highways). Hence ''Estreti'', ''village on the road'' which developed into ''Estrées''.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Vaast, dating from the sixteenth century. * The fifteenth-century , built by the Le May family in 1443See also
* Communes of the Pas-de-Calais departmentReferences
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