Auchy-les-Mines

French commune
name= Auchy-les-Mines
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Cambrin
insee=62051
cp=62138
maire=Jean Clarisse
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.78472222222
latitude=50.5127777778
alt moy=26 m
alt mini=23 m
alt maxi=37 m
hectares=510
km²=5,1
sans=4459
date-sans=1999
dens=874|

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

Geography

A small ex-coal mining town, now mostly a light engineering and farming commune, situated convert|6|mi|km|1 east of Béthune and convert|12|mi|km|1 southwest of Lille, at the junction of the N41 and the D163 roads.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of St.Martin, rebuilt, as was the entire village, after the First World War.

See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

External links

* [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cyberauchy/Auchy/histoire.htm History of the town]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26550&req=Auchy-les-Mines Auchy-les-Mines on the Quid website] fr

Notes

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