Hesdin-l'Abbé

Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

(2020–2026) Thierry Bentz^[1]Area7.39 km² (2.85 sq mi)Population1,881 • Density250/km² (660/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation7–130 m (23–427 ft)
(avg. 11 m or 36 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Hesdin-l'Abbé (French pronunciation: [edɛ̃ labe]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.^[3]

Geography

A forestry and farming village situated some 5 miles (8.0 km) 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.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	789	—
1975	831	+0.74%
1982	1,396	+7.69%
1990	1,880	+3.79%
1999	1,998	+0.68%
2007	1,903	−0.61%
2012	1,884	−0.20%
2017	1,863	−0.22%
Source: INSEE[4]

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

References