Achiet-le-Grand

Achiet-le-Grand (French pronunciation: [aʃjɛ lə ɡʁɑ̃]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.^[3]

Achiet-le-Grand
Commune
The church of Achiet-le-Grand
Coat of arms
Location of Achiet-le-Grand
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Coordinates: 50°07′53″N 2°47′00″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Bapaume
Intercommunality	Sud-Artois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Patricia Copin[1]
Area 1	5.08 km2 (1.96 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	969
• Density	190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62005 /62121
Elevation	104–136 m (341–446 ft) (avg. 117 m or 384 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A farming village located 12 miles (19 km) south of Arras, at the D7 and D9 road junction. The SNCF railway has a station here.

History

Achiet-le-Grand is on the Paris–Lille railway. In 1871 it got a secondary rail connection to Bapaume, later extended to form the Achiet–Marcoing railway.

The commune was involved in the theatre of operations of the Battle of Bapaume (1871), during the Franco-Prussian War.

The village was twinned with Kings Langley in Hertfordshire, England in November 2009, in honour of Christopher Cox VC from that village who won a Victoria Cross in fighting near Achiet-le-Grand in World War I.^[4][5]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	774	—
1975	787	+0.24%
1982	890	+1.77%
1990	948	+0.79%
1999	1,016	+0.77%
2007	1,053	+0.45%
2012	1,036	−0.32%
2017	988	−0.94%
Source: INSEE[6]

Sights

• The church of St.John, dating from the twentieth century.
• A World War I cemetery.

See also

Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department