Guémappe | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Guémappe.svg |
Arrondissement: | Arras |
Canton: | Arras-3 |
Insee: | 62392 |
Postal Code: | 62128 |
Mayor: | Reynald Roche[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CU Arras |
Coordinates: | 50.2544°N 2.89°W |
Elevation M: | 66 |
Elevation Min M: | 52 |
Elevation Max M: | 92 |
Area Km2: | 4.52 |
Guémappe (in French pronounced as /ɡemap/) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.[2]
A small farming village situated 8miles southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D34 and the D38 roads.
First noted as Gammapium in 1135. The seigneurie belonged to that of the Montmorency family at Wancourt. The village was the scene of heavy fighting in April 1917 and August 1918, during the First World War.