Saint-Étienne-au-Mont

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Coordinates: 50°40′56″N 1°37′37″E / 50.6822°N 1.6269°ECoordinates: 50°40′56″N 1°37′37″E / 50.6822°N 1.6269°E
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Samer
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2012–2014)	Brigitte Passebosc
Area^1	14.05 km^2 (5.42 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	5,112
• Density	360/km^2 (940/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62746 / 62360
Elevation	3–113 m (9.8–370.7 ft) (avg. 7 m or 23 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.

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (English: Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, Dutch: Sint-Steven Berg) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. Besides the main settlement Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, the commune consists of the two smaller settlements Pont-de-Briques and Écault.

Geography

Panorama from the mount Ecault and in the Background, the English Channel with the UK.

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont is a small farming and light industrial town situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D52 and D940 roads. The Liane river forms the north and eastern border of the commune, the English Channel the western.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
3423	4389	4301	4632	5037	4995	5112
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

Saint-Etienne Coast Arms

• The church of St.Etienne, dating from the fifteenth century.
• The château d'Audisque, dating from the eighteenth century.
• The château des Lions, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery (Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery) created during World War I for men of the Chinese Labour Corps and of the South African Native Labour Corps.
• The sand dunes along the beach.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
• Chinese Labour Corps

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Official town website (French)
• Saint-Étienne-au-Mont on the Quid website (French)
• The CWGC cemetery
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery on the website "Remembrance Trails of the Great War in Northern France"
• ARENA - Centre d'interprétation de l'environnement (French)