Widehem | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Montreuil |
Canton: | Étaples |
Insee: | 62887 |
Postal Code: | 62630 |
Mayor: | Pierre Lequien[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Deux Baies en Montreuillois |
Coordinates: | 50.5864°N 1.6731°W |
Elevation M: | 99 |
Elevation Min M: | 64 |
Elevation Max M: | 178 |
Area Km2: | 7.2 |
Widehem is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.[2]
Widehem is located north of Montreuil-sur-Mer, on the D148E5 road, from the coast.
Known and recorded as "Wodingahem" in 877, after a Germanic chief of the region who opposed Charlemagne.
The neogothic church of St.Wulmer, dates from the sixteenth century.
Widehem is the site of a pioneering 6-turbine wind farm, that opened in 1999.