Saint-Étienne-au-Mont

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (English: Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, Dutch: Sint-Steven Berg) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France near Boulogne-sur-Mer. Besides the main settlement Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, the commune consists of the two smaller settlements Pont-de-Briques and Écault.

Not to be confused with Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Commune
The route to Ecault beach
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Show map of France Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Show map of Hauts-de-France
Coordinates: 50°40′56″N 1°37′37″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Outreau
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2012–2014)	Brigitte Passebosc
Area ^1	14.05 km^2 (5.42 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	5,076
• Density	360/km^2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62746 /62360
Elevation	3–113 m (9.8–370.7 ft) (avg. 7 m or 23 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont is a small farming and light industrial town situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D52 and D940 roads. The Liane river flows from the north of the commune to the south-east. Beyond Écault lies the English Channel (in the west).

Panorama from Mount Ecault and in the distance, the English Channel.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
3423	4389	4301	4632	5037	4995	5112
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

Aréna, Centre des Dunes

Chapelle d'Écault

Ecault Dunes

• The church of Saint-Léonard (in Saint-Léonard), a twelfth century church.
• The church of Sainte-Thérèse, a nineteenth century church.
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery (including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery)[2] created during World War I for men of the Chinese Labour Corps and of the South African Native Labour Corps.
• The sand dunes along the beach and Aréna (a centre in Écault dedicated to the world of dunes).
• The Château de Pont-de-Briques (in Saint-Léonard), a registered monument[3]
• The Château d’Hardelot in Condette,[4] a castle dating from the middle of the nineteenth century
• The Château d'Audisque, dating from the eighteenth century and a registered monument.[5]
• The Pont-de-Briques, a bridge across the Liane
• The view from the Chapelle d'Écault (the church is also known as l'Église de Saint-Étienne and dates from the twelfth century)
• The PGL Le Pré Catelan Adventure Center (an adventure center for primary schools[6]) in Neufchâtel-Hardelot.

Hiking

To get a good idea of the area you can walk the Sentier de la Converserie.[7] The name is derived from the Converserie, a building on the site of a former leper colony. It encompasses Le Chemin des Juifs[8] and passes Aréna and the Château d’Hardelot (now the Centre Franco-brittanique de l'Entente Cordiale[9]) as well as the local cemetery (which contains de CWGC cemetery).

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
• Chinese Labour Corps

References

• INSEE commune file

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. The CWGC cemetery at St. Etienne-au-Mont
3. Château de Pont-de-Briques in Base Merimee: IA00062560
4. Château d’Hardelot in the Simple English Wikipedia
5. Château d'Audisque in Base Merimee: IA00062536
6. The PGL website
7. Leaflet describing the route on the Boulonnais website
8. The Way of the Jews on the Saint-Etienne-au-Mont website
9. The Château d’Hardelot website

External links

• Official town website (in French)
• Saint-Étienne-au-Mont on the Quid website (in French)
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery on the website "Remembrance Trails of the Great War in Northern France"
• ARENA - Centre d'interprétation de l'environnement (in French)