Saint-Étienne-au-Mont

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
	Commune
	The route to Ecault beach
	Coat of arms
	Location of Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
	Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
	Coordinates: 50°40′56″N 1°37′37″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Outreau
Intercommunality	CA Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Brigitte Passebosc
Area 1	14.05 km2 (5.42 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	5,076
• Density	360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

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

Geography

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 flows from the north of the commune to the south-east. Beyond Écault lies the English Channel (in the west).

Panorama from Mount Ecault and in the distance, the English Channel.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	4,389	—
1975	4,301	−0.29%
1982	4,632	+1.06%
1990	5,037	+1.05%
1999	4,995	−0.09%
2007	5,068	+0.18%
2012	5,097	+0.11%
2017	5,076	−0.08%
Source: INSEE[2]

Places of interest

Aréna, Centre des Dunes

Chapelle d'Écault

Ecault Dunes

The church of Saint-Léonard (in Saint-Léonard), a twelfth century church.
The church of Sainte-Thérèse, a nineteenth century church.
The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery (including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery)[3] 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 and Aréna (a centre in Écault dedicated to the world of dunes).
The Château de Pont-de-Briques (in Saint-Léonard), a registered monument[4]
The Château d’Hardelot in Condette,[5] a castle dating from the middle of the nineteenth century
The Château d'Audisque, dating from the eighteenth century and a registered monument.[6]
The Pont-de-Briques, a bridge across the Liane
The view from the Chapelle d'Écault (the church is also known as l'Église de Saint-Étienne and dates from the twelfth century)
The PGL Le Pré Catelan Adventure Center (an adventure center for primary schools[7]) in Neufchâtel-Hardelot.

Hiking

To get a good idea of the area you can walk the Sentier de la Converserie.[8] The name is derived from the Converserie, a building on the site of a former leper colony. It encompasses Le Chemin des Juifs[9] and passes Aréna and the Château d’Hardelot (now the Centre Franco-brittanique de l'Entente Cordiale[10]) as well as the local cemetery (which contains de CWGC cemetery).

References

INSEE commune file

External links

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[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[3] The CWGC cemetery at St. Etienne-au-Mont

[4] Château de Pont-de-Briques in Base Merimee: IA00062560

[5] Château d’Hardelot in the Simple English Wikipedia

[6] Château d'Audisque in Base Merimee: IA00062536

[7] The PGL website

[8] Leaflet describing the route on the Boulonnais website

[9] The Way of the Jews on the Saint-Etienne-au-Mont website

[10] The Château d’Hardelot website