- Fouquières-lès-Béthune
French commune
name= Fouquières-lès-Béthune
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Béthune-Sud
insee=62350
cp=62232
maire=Jean-Paul Seulin
mandat= 2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté de communes de Nœux et environs
longitude=2.61166666667
latitude=50.5155555556
alt moy=26 m
alt mini=23 m
alt maxi=49 m
hectares=242
km²=2,42
sans=1133
date-sans=1999
dens=468|Fouquières-lès-Béthune is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
A farming and light industrial village suburb situated just convert|1|mi|km|1 southwest of
Bethune and convert|30|mi|km|1 southwest ofLille , at the junction of the D181, N41 and the N43 roads. TheA26 autoroute passes by, just yards from the commune.Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Vaast, dating from the
18th century .
* An oldmanorhouse and an oldfarmhouse .
* Three19th century chateaux.
* TheCommonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery.See also
*
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department External links
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=57502&mode=1 The CWGC communal cemetery extension]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26844&req=Fouquières-lès-Béthune Fouquières-lès-Béthune on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on July 15th 2008."
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