Brimeux

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Coordinates: 50°26′43″N 1°50′06″E / 50.4452777778, 1.835

Commune of Brimeux
Location
Brimeux (France)
Brimeux
Administration
Country France
Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement Montreuil
Canton Campagne-lès-Hesdin
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Val de Canche et d'Authie
Mayor Régis Picque
Statistics
Elevation 6 m–84 m
(avg. 10 m)
Land area¹ 10,68 km²
Population²
(1999)		 688
 - Density 64/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 62177/ 62170
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Brimeux is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

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[edit] Geography

A village situated some 4 miles (7km) southeast of Montreuil-sur-Mer on the D149 road, in the valley of the river Canche.

[edit] History

The village name first appears in 1042 in a royal charter and was then written BRIVERMACUM, a Latin name from the Celtic for ‘’bridge’’. Over the years, it’s had different spellings such as BRIVAMAGUS, BRIVOMAGUS, BRIMEAUS (in 1153), BRIMODIO and BRIMODIUM (in 1154), BRIMAUS in 1226, BRIMEUL in 1415, BRIMEU by 1499 and finally BRIMEUX, in 1704. When peat was extracted at Brimeux, a 5 metre long wooden deck, a tin dish and flakes of flint were discovered, indicating that Brimeux had been inhabited before the arrival of the Romans. Various objects of the Gallo-Roman era were unearthed during the construction of the railway station: coins; weights and the remains of a villa. The area was ransacked by the invading Normans in 842. There are traces of the motte of the feudal castle owned by the De Brimeu family, seigneurs of the village.

[edit] Sites and Monuments

  • The church.

Built between 1495 and 1524 by the seigneur, Hugh de Melun, in flamboyant Gothic style. The nave was restored in 1860 by the architect Norman Clovis who gave it the character that we see today. The bell tower once housed 3 bells but now only has the one, the others having been confiscated in 1793

  • The war memorial. It was erected in 1920.

[edit] Population

Population Evolution
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999
630 642 618 616 660 688
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

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[edit] Notes

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