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Saint-Étienne-au-Mont

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Sint-Stevens Bergen
Commune
The route to Ecault beach
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Étienne-au-Mont
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Show map of France Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Show map of Hauts-de-France
Coordinates: 50°40′56″N 1°37′37″E / 50.6822°N 1.6269°E / 50.6822; 1.6269
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Outreau
Intercommunality	CA Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Brigitte Passebosc[1]
Area 1	14.05 km2 (5.42 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	5,072
• Density	360/km2 (930/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62746 /62360
Elevation	3–113 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.

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿etjɛn‿o mɔ̃]; Picard: Sant-Étienne-au-Mont; obsolete Dutch: Sint-Stevensbergen, lit. 'St. Stephen's Mountains') is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France near Boulogne-sur-Mer.^[3] Besides the main settlement Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, the commune consists of the two smaller settlements Pont-de-Briques and Écault.

Geography[edit]

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).

Population[edit]

Places of interest[edit]

• The church of Sainte-Thérèse, a nineteenth century church.^[5]
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery (including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery)^[6] 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 d'Audisque, dating from the eighteenth century and a registered monument.^[7]
• 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)

Hiking[edit]

To get a good idea of the area you can walk the Sentier de la Converserie.^[8] The name is derived from the Converserie, a building on the site of a former leper colony. It encompasses Le Chemin des Juifs^[9] and passes Aréna and the Château d'Hardelot (now the Centre Franco-brittanique de l'Entente Cordiale^[10]) as well as the local cemetery (which contains de CWGC cemetery).

See also[edit]

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
• Chinese Labour Corps

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Étienne-au-Mont.

• Official town website (in French)
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery on the website "Remembrance Trails of the Great War in Northern France"
• ARENA - Centre d'interprétation de l'environnement (in French)