Auxi-le-Château
Encyclopedia
Auxi-le-Château is a commune
in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France
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department. It is so named because it was a border fort, but there is now no sign of a castle, apart from some ruins at the top of the Chemin de la Belle Inutile.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France
France
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Geography
A farming town located 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Arras at the junction of the D938, D933 and D941 roads. The Authie river flows through the town, which once divided the commune into two parts, one in the Pas-de-Calais and the other in the SommeSomme
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department. It is so named because it was a border fort, but there is now no sign of a castle, apart from some ruins at the top of the Chemin de la Belle Inutile.
Population
Places of interest
- The neo-Gothic Town Hall.
- The ruins of a 12th century castle.
- 17th and eighteenth century houses.
- WatermillWatermillA watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour, lumber or textile production, or metal shaping .- History :...
s. - The Museum of Arts and Folklife, in a former rectory.
- The neo-Gothic church of St.Martin, dating from the fifteenth century.
- Two 19th century chapels.