Clarques

Clarques
Chateau
Clarques
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Clarques
Administration
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Aire-sur-la-Lys
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Morinie
Mayor	René Allouchery (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	29–97 m (95–318 ft) (avg. 66 m/217 ft)
Land area1	6.96 km2 (2.69 sq mi)
Population2	233  (1999)
- Density	33 /km2 (85 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62226/ 62129
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 50°38′50″N 2°16′42″E / 50.6472222222°N 2.27833333333°E / 50.6472222222; 2.27833333333

Clarques is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming village situated 8 miles (13 km) south of Saint-Omer, on the D190 and D192 road junction. The A26 autoroute passes by the commune just 200 yards (180 m) away.

Population

Historical population of Clarques

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
234	254	238	206	231	233
From the year 1962 on: population without double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of St.Martin, dating from the seventeenth century.
• The remains of two abbeys: The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Jean-au-Mont, founded in 1080 by Hubert, Bishop of Thérouanne, was destroyed in 1537 during military operations and the community took refuge at Ypres. The other abbey was founded in 1131 as an Augustinian (Premonstratensian order) by Milon, Bishop of Thérouanne, which survived until the French Revolution.
• A watermill
• A chateau

The present chateau was built in the early 1780s by Augustin Titelouze de Gournay, a king’s musketeer, before his marriage to Marie-Therese de Feuchin in 1788. The house was enlarged in 1905 by Joseph de Gournay from the plans of architect Lillois Vilain, adding the protruding wings.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Clarques on the Quid website (French)