commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
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 of ...
Hauts-de-France
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region of
France
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dormitory
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village situated some south of Boulogne, at junction 28 of the
A16 autoroute
The A16 autoroute – also known as ''L'Européenne'' and forming between Abbeville and Dunkirk a part of the larger ''Autoroute des estuaires'' – is a motorway in northern France.
The motorway, which has a total length of , starts at a j ...
with the D901 (formerly the N1 Paris-Calais highway). The river Liane flows through the commune.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Apolline, dating from the sixteenth century.
* The eighteenth-century chateau d'Hermerangues.
* A sixteenth-century castle on a
motte
A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade. Relatively easy to ...
.
* The sixteenth-century chateau de Quehen.
* The eighteenth-century chateau de Pont-de-Briques.