- Houchin
French commune
name= Houchin
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Barlin
insee=62456
cp=62620
maire=Claude Konieczko
mandat=2008 -2014
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.62305555556
latitude=50.4833333333
alt moy=75 m
alt mini=37 m
alt maxi=76 m
hectares=450
km²=4,5
sans=683
date-sans=1999
dens=151|Houchin is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
A farming village, situated some convert|3|mi|km|1 south of
Béthune near the junction of the D72 and the D171 roads.Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Omer, dating from the
17th century .
* TheCommonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries.See also
*
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department External links
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=57500&mode=1 The CWGC military cemetery]
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=57501&mode=1 The CWGC graves in the communal cemetery]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26946&req=Houchin Houchin on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on July 18th 2008."
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