Camiers
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| Commune of Camiers | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 01° 36' 52" East |
| Latitude | 50° 34' 00" North |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais |
| Arrondissement | Montreuil |
| Canton | Étaples |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 2 m–176 m (avg. 23 m) |
| Land area¹ | 16.13 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
2,252 |
| - Density (1999) | 139/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 62201/ 62176 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Camiers is a French, commune in the département of Pas-de-Calais and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région.
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[edit] Geography
The area of the commune is 16 km². The village of Camiers itself is small and stands just inland from the dunes on the south-west and west-facing coast just north of Étaples. The space between the village and the mouth of the River Canche is occupied by a nature reserve in the dunes. The local solid geology is the Cretaceous plateau of Artois with the Boulonnais just to the north. In its highest part, the commune rises onto the Upper Cretaceous at 176 metres but most lies on the levelled marine sand which in the medieval period, was off-shore.
The coastal road, the D940 now by-passes the village to the west while the main traffic between Calais and Abbeville is carried by the Autoroute A16 on the higher ground to the east. The Autoroute briefly passes through the eastern extremity of the commune.
[edit] History
Camiers belonged to the Lordship of Noailles. However the waters of the lagoon between the dunes and the shore of the solid geology, for many years, presented an obstacle to its development.
During the the First World War the flat lands were the site of the huge base depôt of the British army in France. It is usually known nowadays as Étaples camp. Through most of the war, close to it and part of the same complex, Camiers camp was the base depôt, in France, of the Machine Gun Corps. Its home base depôt was at Belton Park, near Grantham.
[edit] Administration
| Period | Name | Party | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2001 | |||
| earlier information is not yet known | |||
[edit] Demography
In 1999, there were 2,076 households of which 260 were of one person.
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1764 | 2088 | 2064 | 2093 | 2176 | 2252 |
| Numbers recorded since 1962 : Population without double counting | |||||
[edit] Sites and monuments
- Camiers mill
- Sainte Cécile Plage. Most visitors go there for swimming.
[edit] Personalities linked with the commune
Most of the men of the MGC passed through Camiers. This one must represent them.
