Thélus

Thélus
Thélus
	Commune
	The centre of Thélus
	Coat of arms
	Location of Thélus
	Thélus Thélus
	Coordinates: 50°21′20″N 2°48′05″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Arras-2
Intercommunality	Arras
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Bernard Milleville
Area 1	8.99 km2 (3.47 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	1,204
• Density	130/km2 (350/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62810 /62580
Elevation	88–143 m (289–469 ft) ; (avg. 121 m or 397 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Thélus is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) southeast of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the missing First World War Canadian soldiers with no known grave; the Memorial is also the site of two Canadian cemeteries.[2]

Geography

Thélus lies 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Arras, at the junction of the N17 and D49 roads. Junction 7 of the A26 autoroute is less than a mile away.

Population history
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
659	703	853	887	998	1022	1204
Census count starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

The church of St.Ranulphe, rebuilt, as was most of the village, after World War I.
Two memorials to the Canadians who fell during the First World War.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries.

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"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"Canadian National Vimy Memorial, France". The Great War UK. The Great War UK. 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017. The ridge runs in a direction from Givenchy-en-Gohelle in the north-west to Farbus in the south-east.

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