Hesdin-l'Abbé explained

Hesdin-l'Abbé
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason Hesdin-l'Abbé.svg
Arrondissement:	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton:	Outreau
Insee:	62448
Postal Code:	62360
Mayor:	Thierry Bentz^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	CA du Boulonnais
Coordinates:	50.6694°N 1.6819°W
Elevation M:	11
Elevation Min M:	7
Elevation Max M:	130
Area Km2:	7.39

Hesdin-l'Abbé (in French pronounced as /edɛ̃ labe/) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.^[2]

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated some 5miles south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D901 (formerly the N1 Paris-Calais highway) and theD240 road. The A16 autoroute forms part of the western border of the commune and the river Liane the southern.

Places of interest

• The church of St.Leger, dating from the seventeenth century.
• The eighteenth-century chateau d'Hesdin-l'Abbé, nowadays the Hotel Cléry.
• A seventeenth-century manorhouse.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
2. https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/cog/commune/COM62448-hesdin-l-abbe INSEE commune file