Le Ponchel
Encyclopedia
Le Ponchel is a commune
in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
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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 the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Geography
Le Ponchel is situated 34 miles (55 km) west of Arras, at the junction of the D121 and the D119 roads, on the banks of the Authie river, the border with the department of the SommeSomme
Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It is part of the Picardy region of France....
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Population
Places of interest
- The church of St.Jean, dating from the eighteenth century.
- An eighteenth-century 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 :...
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