Gauchin-Légal

French commune
name= Gauchin-Légal
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Houdain
insee=62366
cp=62150
maire=Claude Lemaitre
mandat= 2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.58277777778
latitude=50.4155555556
alt moy=93 m
alt mini=85 m
alt maxi=167 m
hectares=603
km²=6,03
sans=331
date-sans=1999
dens=54|

Gauchin-Légal (or Gauchin-le-Gal) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais "département" in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming village situated some convert|10|mi|km|1 south of Bethune and convert|29|mi|km|1 southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D73 and the D341 roads. A small stream, the ‘ruisseau Caucourt’, a tributary of the river Lawe, flows through the village.

Population

Places of interest

* ’Le Gal’, a sandstone rock chained to another on the village square.
* The church of St.Joseph, dating from the 16th century.
* The 18th century chateau.

See also

*Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

External links

* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26860&req=Gauchin-Légal Gauchin-Légal on the Quid website] fr

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on July 15th 2008."