Saint-Martin-Boulogne (; vls, Sint-Maarten bij Bonen) is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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** Communes of ...
in the
Pas-de-Calais department in the
Hauts-de-France region of
France
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.
INSEE commune file
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Geography
Saint-Martin-Boulogne is a farming and light industrial
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suburb east of Boulogne itself, at the junction of the N42 and D96 roads. Junctions 30 and 31 of the A16 autoroute lie within the commune's borders.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Martin, dating from the eighteenth century.
* The modern church of Sts.Bernadette and Yde.
* The Château de La Caucherie, dating from the nineteenth century.
* The Château du Denacre, dating from the eighteenth century.
* Three 17th century farmhouses and manorhouse
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s.
* A fifteenth century windmill
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and the ruins of a watermill
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.
* The Meerut Military Cemetery (Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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cemetery).
See also
* Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
References
External links
Official town website
The CWGC cemetery
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