- Vieille-Chapelle
French commune
name= Vieille-Chapelle
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Béthune-Est
insee=62851
cp=62136
maire=Jean-Michel Desse
mandat=2008 -2014
intercomm=Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.70638888889
latitude=50.5922222222
alt moy=18 m
alt mini=16 m
alt maxi=19 m
hectares=341
km²=3,41
sans=707
date-sans=2005
dens=205|Vieille-Chapelle is a commune in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
A farming village situated some convert|7|mi|km|1 northeast of
Béthune and convert|15|mi|km|1 west ofLille , at the junction of the D182 and D172 roads. The river Lawe flows through the commune.Population
Places of interest
* Ruins of a
medieval castle.
* The church of Notre-Dame, rebuilt along with much of the village, afterWorld War I .
* The war memorial.
* 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=28300&mode=1 The CWGC graves in the commune’s cemetery]
* [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=2027544&mode=1 The CWGC military cemetery]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=27336&req=Vieille-Chapelle Vieille-Chapelle on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on July 30th 2008."
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