Liettres

Liettres
Commune
Château de Liettres
Coat of arms
Liettres Location within Hauts-de-France region Liettres
Coordinates: 50°35′47″N 2°20′35″E / 50.5964°N 2.3431°E / 50.5964; 2.3431Coordinates: 50°35′47″N 2°20′35″E / 50.5964°N 2.3431°E / 50.5964; 2.3431
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Béthune
Canton	Aire-sur-la-Lys
Intercommunality	CA Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Marcel Pruvost
Area1	3.07 km2 (1.19 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	281
• Density	92/km2 (240/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
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 Hauts-de-France 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

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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Liettres.

• Liettres on the Quid website (in French)