Grévillers

Grévillers
Commune
A general view of Grévillers and the British Cemetery
Coat of arms
Grévillers Location within Hauts-de-France region Grévillers
Coordinates: 50°06′23″N 2°48′43″E / 50.1064°N 2.8119°E / 50.1064; 2.8119Coordinates: 50°06′23″N 2°48′43″E / 50.1064°N 2.8119°E / 50.1064; 2.8119
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Bapaume
Intercommunality	CC Sud-Artois
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Paul Lequette
Area1	6.35 km2 (2.45 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	331
• Density	52/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62387 /62450
Elevation	108–136 m (354–446 ft) (avg. 119 m or 390 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.

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

Geography

A farming village situated 15 miles (24 km) south of Arras, at the junction of the D10 and three small roads.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the seventeenth century.
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery.
• Memorial to General Aubert Frere, born here in 1881.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grévillers.

• The CWGC cemetery at Grévillers
• South Africans buried in Grevillers British Cemetery
• The memorial to Gen. Frere (in French)
• Grévillers on the Quid website (in French)