| Achiet-le-Grand | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Achiet-le-Grand.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Arras |
| Canton: | Bapaume |
| Insee: | 62005 |
| Postal Code: | 62121 |
| Mayor: | Patricia Copin[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | Sud-Artois |
| Coordinates: | 50.1314°N 2.7833°W |
| Elevation M: | 117 |
| Elevation Min M: | 104 |
| Elevation Max M: | 136 |
| Area Km2: | 5.08 |
Achiet-le-Grand (pronounced as /fr/) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.[2]
A farming village located 12 miles (19 km) south of Arras, at the D7 and D9 road junction. The SNCF railway has a station here.
Achiet-le-Grand is on the Paris–Lille railway. In 1871 it got a secondary rail connection to Bapaume, later extended to form the Achiet–Marcoing railway.
The commune was involved in the theatre of operations of the Battle of Bapaume (1871), during the Franco-Prussian War.
The village was twinned with Kings Langley in Hertfordshire, England in November 2009, in honour of Christopher Cox VC from that village who won a Victoria Cross in fighting near Achiet-le-Grand in World War I.[3] [4]
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department