Saint-Étienne-au-Mont

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (English: Saint-Etienne-au-Mont, Dutch: Sint-Steven Berg) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France near Boulogne-sur-Mer. Besides the main settlement Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, the commune consists of the two smaller settlements Pont-de-Briques and Écault.

Not to be confused with Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Commune
The route to Ecault beach
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Coordinates: 50°40′56″N 1°37′37″E
CountryFrance
RegionHauts-de-France
DepartmentPas-de-Calais
ArrondissementBoulogne-sur-Mer
CantonOutreau
IntercommunalityCommunauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais
Government
 • Mayor (2012–2014) Brigitte Passebosc
Area
1
14.05 km2 (5.42 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
5,076
 • Density360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
62746 /62360
Elevation3–113 m (9.8–370.7 ft)
(avg. 7 m or 23 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont is a small farming and light industrial town situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D52 and D940 roads. The Liane river flows from the north of the commune to the south-east. Beyond Écault lies the English Channel (in the west).

Panorama from Mount Ecault and in the distance, the English Channel.

Population
Population history
1962196819751982199019992006
3423438943014632503749955112
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest
Aréna, Centre des Dunes
Chapelle d'Écault
Ecault Dunes
  • The church of Saint-Léonard (in Saint-Léonard), a twelfth century church.
  • The church of Sainte-Thérèse, a nineteenth century church.
  • The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery (including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery)[2] created during World War I for men of the Chinese Labour Corps and of the South African Native Labour Corps.
  • The sand dunes along the beach and Aréna (a centre in Écault dedicated to the world of dunes).
  • The Château de Pont-de-Briques (in Saint-Léonard), a registered monument[3]
  • The Château d’Hardelot in Condette,[4] a castle dating from the middle of the nineteenth century
  • The Château d'Audisque, dating from the eighteenth century and a registered monument.[5]
  • The Pont-de-Briques, a bridge across the Liane
  • The view from the Chapelle d'Écault (the church is also known as l'Église de Saint-Étienne and dates from the twelfth century)
  • The PGL Le Pré Catelan Adventure Center (an adventure center for primary schools[6]) in Neufchâtel-Hardelot.

Hiking

To get a good idea of the area you can walk the Sentier de la Converserie.[7] The name is derived from the Converserie, a building on the site of a former leper colony. It encompasses Le Chemin des Juifs[8] and passes Aréna and the Château d’Hardelot (now the Centre Franco-brittanique de l'Entente Cordiale[9]) as well as the local cemetery (which contains de CWGC cemetery).

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. The CWGC cemetery at St. Etienne-au-Mont
  3. Château de Pont-de-Briques in Base Merimee: IA00062560
  4. Château d’Hardelot in the Simple English Wikipedia
  5. Château d'Audisque in Base Merimee: IA00062536
  6. The PGL website
  7. Leaflet describing the route on the Boulonnais website
  8. The Way of the Jews on the Saint-Etienne-au-Mont website
  9. The Château d’Hardelot website
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