Delettes

Delettes
Commune
The road into Delettes
Coat of arms
Delettes Location within Hauts-de-France region Delettes
Coordinates: 50°37′06″N 2°12′50″E / 50.6183°N 2.2139°E / 50.6183; 2.2139Coordinates: 50°37′06″N 2°12′50″E / 50.6183°N 2.2139°E / 50.6183; 2.2139
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Fruges
Intercommunality	Pays de Saint-Omer
Government
• Mayor	Jacques Bourdon
Area1	14.69 km2 (5.67 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	912
• Density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62265 /62129
Elevation	36–138 m (118–453 ft) (avg. 54 m or 177 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.

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

Geography

A commune of four small farming villages situated 9 miles (14 km) south of Saint-Omer, at the D157 and D193 crossroads. The river Lys flows by the commune.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St.Maxime, dating from the seventeenth century.
• The church of Notre-Dame at Upen d'Amont.
• The church of Notre-Dame at Upen d'Aval.
• The war memorial. Built in 1921 and reconstructed in 1999.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Delettes.

• The war memorial (in French)
• History of Delettes (in French)
• Delettes on the Insee website (in French)
• Delettes on the Quid website (in French)