Gauchin-Légal

Gauchin-Légal
Gauchin-Légal
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Gauchin-Légal
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Béthune
Canton	Houdain
Intercommunality	Artois
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Claude Lemaitre
Area1	6.03 km2 (2.33 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	337
• Density	56/km2 (140/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62366 / 62150
Elevation	85–167 m (279–548 ft) (avg. 93 m or 305 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.

Gauchin-Légal (or Gauchin-le-Gal) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming village situated some 10 miles (16.1 km) south of Béthune and 29 miles (46.7 km) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D73 and the D341 roads. A small stream, the ‘ruisseau Caucourt’, a tributary of the river Lawe, flows through the village.

Population

Historical population of Gauchin-Légal

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2012
Population	271	272	245	227	296	331	337
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• "Le Gal", a sandstone rock chained to another on the village square.
• The church of St. Joseph, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The eighteenth-century château.

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  Le gal de Gauchin

• Gauchin-Légal - Eglise.JPG

  The church

• Gauchin-Légal - Monument aux morts.JPG

  Monument to war dead

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Gauchin-Légal on the Quid website (French)