Houplines

Infobox Commune de France|nomcommune=Houplines


taille=100px
région=Nord-Pas-de-Calais
département=Nord
arrondissement=Lille
canton=Armentières
insee=59317
cp=59116
maire=Jacques Deruyter
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Lille Métropole
longitude=2.91027777778
latitude=50.6913888889
alt moy=14 m
alt mini=12 m
alt maxi=20 m
hectares=1132
km²=11,32
sans=7907
date-sans=1999
dens=698|

Houplines is a commune of the Nord "département", in northern France.

It is part of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole.

Adjoining the communal (village) cemetery is the Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension, a Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintained cemetery containing the graves of 466 identified casualties, 465 of them Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives in the area around the village during the First World War.

Houplines maintains a partnership arrangement with the German community of Kirchhundem.

External links

[http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=28401&mode=1 Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension] on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission official site; includes an account of the fighting around Houplines