- Lorgies
French commune
name= Lorgies
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Laventie
insee=62529
cp=62840
maire=Anne-Marie Lefebvre
mandat= 2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.79138888889
latitude=50.5688888889
alt moy=21 m
alt mini=19 m
alt maxi=26 m
hectares=684
km²=6,84
sans=1174
date-sans=1999
dens=171|Lorgies is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
A farming village, situated some convert|12|mi|km|1 northeast of
Béthune and convert|13|mi|km|1 southwest ofLille , at the junction of the D168 and D72 roads.Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Mathieu, rebuilt in
1931 .
* Le Bourg chapel.See also
*
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department External links
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2027421&mode=1 The CWGC graves in the communal cemetery of Lorgies]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=27019&req=Lorgies Lorgies on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on July 25th 2008."
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