Mont-Saint-Éloi

Mont-Saint-Éloi
Commune
Abbey of Mont Saint-Éloi
Coat of arms
Mont-Saint-Éloi Location within Hauts-de-France region Mont-Saint-Éloi
Coordinates: 50°21′07″N 2°41′38″E / 50.3519°N 2.6939°E / 50.3519; 2.6939Coordinates: 50°21′07″N 2°41′38″E / 50.3519°N 2.6939°E / 50.3519; 2.6939
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Arras-1
Intercommunality	CU Arras
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Pierre Bavière
Area1	15.85 km2 (6.12 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,033
• Density	65/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62589 /62144
Elevation	67–145 m (220–476 ft) (avg. 135 m or 443 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.

Mont-Saint-Éloi is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Mont-Saint-Éloi is situated 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D341 and the D49 roads, on the banks of the river Scarpe.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St.Joseph, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery.
• The eighteenth-century chateau d’Écoivres.
• Remains of an abbey church, destroyed in 1783.
• Two menhirs, known as the Twin Stones.

Towers of the abbey of Mont Saint-Éloi

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mont-Saint-Éloi.

• The CWGC cemetery at Écoivres
• Mont-Saint-Éloi on the Quid website (in French)

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  The menhirs
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  Menhirs
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  Écoivres village
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  Features on the church spire
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  Aerial view of the countryside
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  Aerial view
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  Aerial view of the abbey