Roëllecourt
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Roëllecourt is a commune
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

Roëllecourt lies just outside Saint-Pol, some 19 miles (31 km) west of Arras, at the junction of the D8 and N39 roads.

Population

style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em"|Population history
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
323 354 366 462 541 595 512
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

  • The sixteenth-century church of St.Omer.
  • An eighteenth-century manor house
    Manor house
    A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

  • A chapel.
  • Traces of an old castle.

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