Courset

Courset
Coat of arms
Courset
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Courset
Coordinates: 50°38′49″N 1°50′32″E / 50.6469°N 1.8422°ECoordinates: 50°38′49″N 1°50′32″E / 50.6469°N 1.8422°E
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie
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)	Marc Denavaut
Area^1	10.24 km^2 (3.95 sq mi)
Population (1999)^2	396
• Density	39/km^2 (100/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62251 / 62240
Elevation	121–209 m (397–686 ft) (avg. 118 m or 387 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.

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

Geography

A farming and forestry village, some 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Boulogne, on the D127 road.

Population

Historical population of Courset

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
Population	321	328	363	334	365	396
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of St. Maurice, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The nineteenth-century chateau de Courset.
• The seventeenth-century manorhouse of la Gaverie.
• Remains of an old castle.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Courset on the Quid website (French)