Festubert

Festubert

French commune
name= Festubert
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Cambrin
insee=62330
cp=62149
maire=Jean-Marie Douvry
mandat= 2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.7375
latitude=50.5441666667
alt moy=20 m
alt mini=18 m
alt maxi=21 m
hectares=764
km²=7,64
sans=1120
date-sans=1999
dens=146|

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

Geography

A farming village some convert|5|mi|km|1 east of Bethune and convert|21|mi|km|1 southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D166 and the D72 roads.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of Notre-Dame, rebuilt, as was much of the village, after the First World War.
* The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries.

See also

*Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
*Battle of Festubert

External links

* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2000035&mode=1 Brown’s Road CWGC cemetery]
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2027279&mode=1 The CWGC graveyard in the communal cemetery]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26824&req=Festubert Festubert on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on July 14th 2008."


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