Saint-Venant

Saint-Venant
Saint-Venant
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Saint-Venant
Coordinates: 50°37′24″N 2°32′43″E / 50.6232°N 2.5453°E / 50.6232; 2.5453Coordinates: 50°37′24″N 2°32′43″E / 50.6232°N 2.5453°E / 50.6232; 2.5453
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Béthune
Canton	Lillers
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes Artois-Lys
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	André Flajolet
Area1	14.24 km2 (5.50 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	3,367
• Density	240/km2 (610/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62770 / 62350
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Venant is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

Saint-Venant is situated some 9 miles (14.5 km) northwest of Béthune and 26 miles (41.8 km) west of Lille, at the junction of the D186 and D916 roads and by the banks of the Lys River.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St. Venant, rebuilt along with much of the village, after the First World War.
• The Hotel de Ville (Town Hall), dating from the eighteenth century.
• The civilian cemetery, incorporating a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery and the grave of Edward Gordon Williams.
• The town's war memorial.
• A memorial to the Royal Welch Fusiliers.^[1]
• Gardens of the Manoir de La Peylouse, incorporating an exhibition on First World War poetry.^[2]

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Venant.

• The CWGC graves in the churchyard
• The CWGC British cemetery
• Saint-Venant on the Quid website (French)