Liettres

Liettres
Château de Liettres
Coat of arms
Liettres
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Liettres
Coordinates: 50°35′47″N 2°20′35″E / 50.5964°N 2.3431°ECoordinates: 50°35′47″N 2°20′35″E / 50.5964°N 2.3431°E
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Béthune
Canton	Norrent-Fontes
Intercommunality	Artois Flandres
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Marcel Pruvost
Area^1	3.07 km^2 (1.19 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	281
• Density	92/km^2 (240/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62509 / 62145
Elevation	32–91 m (105–299 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.

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

Geography

Liettres is situated some 12 miles (19.3 km) northwest of Béthune and 32 miles (51.5 km) west of Lille, on the D186e2 and D186, bordered by the A26 autoroute.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
205	226	229	241	224	239	281
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.
• Remains of the fifteenth-century chateau, partly destroyed in 1542 by troops of the Duke de Vendôme.
• The seventeenth-century chateau.
• An ancient windmill.
• Sacré-Coeur chapel.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Liettres on the Quid website (French)