Mont-Saint-Éloi

Mont-Saint-Éloi is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Mont-Saint-Éloi
Abbey of Mont Saint-Éloi
Coat of arms
Location of Mont-Saint-Éloi
Mont-Saint-Éloi
Mont-Saint-Éloi
Coordinates: 50°21′07″N 2°41′38″E
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentPas-de-Calais
ArrondissementArras
CantonArras-1
IntercommunalityCU Arras
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Jean-Pierre Bavière
Area
1
15.85 km2 (6.12 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
1,023
  Density65/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
62589 /62144
Elevation67–145 m (220–476 ft)
(avg. 135 m or 443 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Mont-Saint-Éloi is situated 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D341 and the D49 roads, on the banks of the river Scarpe.

Population

Population history
1962196819751982199019992006
103110421056102398210181033
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

  • The church of St.Joseph, dating from the sixteenth century.
  • The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery.
  • The eighteenth-century chateau d’Écoivres.
  • Remains of an abbey church, destroyed in 1783.
  • Two menhirs, known as the Twin Stones.
Towers of the abbey of Mont Saint-Éloi
gollark: I mean, ours is only a few hundred metres away, if I remember correctly. They could run fibre to that, but nooo...
gollark: Most people are on copper-to-a-magic-box-which-has-fibre, which they call "fibre", which is a total lie.
gollark: Awful internet infrastructure, though.
gollark: In the UK we have a relatively reliable power grid even out here in the middle of Nowhere (Nowhere is otherwise known as the north east).
gollark: This is PHP, not sanity.

See also

References

  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.


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