Cauchy-à-la-Tour

French commune
name= Cauchy-à-la-Tour
region=
departement=
arrondissement=Béthune
canton= Auchel
insee=62217
cp=62260
maire=Eugène Fontaine
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
longitude=2.4525
latitude=50.5044444444
alt moy=115 m
alt mini=82 m
alt maxi=116 m
hectares=313
km²=3.13
sans=2,856
date-sans=1999
dens=912
date-dens=1999

Cauchy-à-la-Tour is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais "département" in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A farming and ex-coalmining village some convert|10|mi|km|1 southwest of Béthune and convert|30|mi|km|1 southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D183 and the D341 roads.

Population

Places of interest

* The church of St.Pierre, rebuilt after the First World War.
* The war memorial.
* Ruins of an old castle.

People with links to the commune

* Philippe Pétain, marshall of France, was born here on the 24 April 1856.

See also

* Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

Notes

*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on July 12th 2008."

External links

* [http://www.agglo-artoiscomm.fr/ Website of the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=26715&req=Cauchy-à-la-Tour Cauchy-à-la-Tour on the Quid website] fr