Nielles-lès-Ardres

Nielles-lès-Ardres
Commune
The town hall of Nielles-lès-Ardres
Coat of arms
Nielles-lès-Ardres Location within Hauts-de-France region Nielles-lès-Ardres
Coordinates: 50°50′33″N 2°01′02″E / 50.8425°N 2.0172°E / 50.8425; 2.0172Coordinates: 50°50′33″N 2°01′02″E / 50.8425°N 2.0172°E / 50.8425; 2.0172
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Calais
Canton	Calais-2
Intercommunality	CC Pays d'Opale
Government
• Mayor	Jacques Henard
Area1	4.48 km2 (1.73 sq mi)
Population (2066)2	482
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62614 /62610
Elevation	1–29 m (3.3–95.1 ft) (avg. 9 m or 30 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.

Nielles-lès-Ardres is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Nielles-lès-Ardres lies about 14 miles (22 km) northwest of Saint-Omer, on the D225E road.

Population

Places of interest

• The church of St. Pierre, dating from the year 1200.
• Ruins of the château de la Montoire, destroyed by the duc de Vendôme in 1542.
• Château de la Cressonnerie, built between 1808/1812.
• The seventeenth century ‘Le Colombier’, an enormous round tower.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nielles-lès-Ardres.

• Nielles-lès-Ardres on the Quid website (in French)