Brimeux

French commune
name=Brimeux
region=
departement=
arrondissement=
canton= Campagne-lès-Hesdin
insee=62177
cp=62170
maire=Régis Picque
mandat=
intercomm=Communauté de communes du Val de Canche et d'Authie
longitude=1.835
latitude=50.4452777778
alt moy=10 m
alt mini=6 m
alt maxi=84 m
hectares=1068
km²=10,68
sans=688
date-sans=1999
dens=64
date-dens=1999

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

Geography

Brimeux is a village situated some 4 miles (7km) southeast of Montreuil-sur-Mer on the D149 road, in the valley of the river Canche.

History

The village name first appears in 1042 in a royal charter and was then written BRIVERMACUM, a Latin name from the Celtic for ‘’bridge’’. Over the years, it’s had different spellings such as BRIVAMAGUS, BRIVOMAGUS, BRIMEAUS (in 1153), BRIMODIO and BRIMODIUM (in 1154), BRIMAUS in 1226, BRIMEUL in 1415, BRIMEU by 1499 and finally BRIMEUX, in 1704. When peat was extracted at Brimeux, a 5 metre long wooden deck, a tin dish and flakes of flint were discovered, indicating that Brimeux had been inhabited before the arrival of the Romans. Various objects of the Gallo-Roman era were unearthed during the construction of the railway station: coins; weights and the remains of a villa. The area was ransacked by the invading Normans in 842. There are traces of the motte of the feudal castle owned by the De Brimeu family, seigneurs of the village.

Sites and Monuments

* The church. Built between 1495 and 1524 by the seigneur, Hugh de Melun, in flamboyant Gothic style. The nave was restored in 1860 by the architect Norman Clovis who gave it the character that we see today. The bell tower once housed 3 bells but now only has the one, the others having been confiscated in 1793
* The war memorial. It was erected in 1920.

Population

See also

* Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on April 16th 2008."

External links

* [http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=62177&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE Brimeux on the Insee website] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=query&req=Brimeux Brimeux on the Quid website] fr
* [http://www.ccbrimeux.com Cyclo Club Brimeux, cycling club of Brimeux]