- Gosnay
French commune
name= Gosnay
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton=Barlin
insee=62377
cp=62199
maire=Francis Verloo
mandat=2008 -2014
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.5875
latitude=50.5080555556
alt moy=29 m
alt mini=25 m
alt maxi=61 m
hectares=221
km²=2,21
sans=1195
date-sans=1999
dens=540|Gosnay is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
A former
coalmining commune, now a light industrial and farming village, situated some convert|2|mi|km|1 southwest ofBethune and convert|25|mi|km|1 southwest ofLille , at the junction of the D181 and the N41 roads. Junction 6 of theA26 autoroute is about half a mile to the east.Population
Places of interest
* The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery.
* The church of St.Leger, dating from the17th century .
* The remains of twoCarthusian monasteries and a mill.See also
*
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department External links
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=57505&mode=1 The CWGC graveyard in the communal cemetery]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26871&req=Gosnay Gosnay on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on July 15th 2008."
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