Tardinghen

Tardinghen
Tardinghen
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Tardinghen
Coordinates: 50°52′01″N 1°37′52″E / 50.8669°N 1.6311°E / 50.8669; 1.6311Coordinates: 50°52′01″N 1°37′52″E / 50.8669°N 1.6311°E / 50.8669; 1.6311
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Marquise
Intercommunality	Terre des Deux Caps
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Thibaut Segard
Area1	8.72 km2 (3.37 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	167
• Density	19/km2 (50/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62806 / 62179
Elevation	1–96 m (3.3–315.0 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 ft)
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.

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

Landscape seen from the route du Châtelet

Geography

Tardinghen is situated some 19 kilometres (12 mi) north of Boulogne, at the junction of the D249 and D940 roads, on Cape Gris-Nez. Parts of the coastline, forming the northern border of the commune, have receded inland at about 5 metres (5 ¹⁄₂ yd) per year.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St. Martin, dating from the eighteenth century.
• An eighteenth-century manorhouse.
• Vestiges of the Atlantic Wall.
• Brasserie de Deux Caps, local microbrewery.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tardinghen.

• The history of Tardinghen on Histopale (French)
• Tardinghen on the Quid website (French)