Longfossé

Longfossé
Commune
The town hall and school of Longfossé
Coat of arms
Longfossé
Location within Hauts-de-France region  Longfossé
Coordinates: 50°39′10″N 1°48′23″E / 50.6528°N 1.8064°E / 50.6528; 1.8064Coordinates: 50°39′10″N 1°48′23″E / 50.6528°N 1.8064°E / 50.6528; 1.8064
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Desvres
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Pays de la Faïence de Desvres
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Claude Pruvost
Area1	10.22 km2 (3.95 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,275
• Density	120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	62524 /62240
Elevation	39–207 m (128–679 ft) (avg. 91 m or 299 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.

Longfossé is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Longfossé is situated some 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D204 and D215 roads..

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St.Pierre, dating from the seventeenth century.
• An eighteenth-century manorhouse.

Gallery

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  St.Pierre Church
• 
  A statue of Jesus in the town

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Longfossé.

• Longfossé on the Quid website (in French)