Auchy-au-Bois

French commune
name= Auchy-au-Bois
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Norrent-Fontes
insee=62049
cp=62190
maire=Claudine Vincent
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté de communes Artois-Lys
longitude=2.37194444444
latitude=50.5552777778
alt moy=89 m
alt mini=61 m
alt maxi=110 m
hectares=427
km²=4,27
sans=414
date-sans=1999
dens=96|

Auchy-au-Bois is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais "département" in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming village situated convert|11|mi|km|1 west of Béthune and convert|33|mi|km|1 west of Lille, at the junction of the D94 and the D341 roads.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of St.Gilles, dating from the 17th century.
* The old towers of the chateau de Fromental, now farm buildings.

See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

External links

* [http://www.echo62.com/article.asp?num_art=379 Article about Fromental farm] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26548&req=Auchy-au-Bois Auchy-au-Bois on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on July 10th 2008."