Godewaersvelde

Godewaersvelde (French pronunciation: [ɡɔdvaʁsvɛld]; French Flemish: Godsvelde) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France, near the Belgian border.^[3]

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Godewaersvelde
Commune
The old railway station and church
Coat of arms
Location of Godewaersvelde
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Coordinates: 50°47′41″N 2°38′39″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkerque
Canton	Bailleul
Intercommunality	CA Cœur de Flandre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Antoine Vermeulen^[1]
Area ¹	11.89 km² (4.59 sq mi)
Population (2022)^[2]	2,037
• Density	170/km² (440/sq mi)
Demonym	Godewaersveldois (es)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59262 /59270
Elevation	27–163 m (89–535 ft) (avg. 41 m or 135 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Location

Godewaersvelde is in northern France along the Belgian border and is in the heart of Flanders, less than half an hour from Lille and Dunkirk. Godewaersvelde covers 1189 hectares or nearly 12 square kilometers and is crossed by several county roads: the R & D 948 which connects at the A25 interchange in Poperinge, 139 R & D that leads to Boeschèpe and Eecke, DR 18, which connects Route Méteren to Poperinge.

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Population

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Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,798	—
1975	1,665	−1.09%
1982	1,713	+0.41%
1990	1,738	+0.18%
1999	1,927	+1.15%
2007	1,964	+0.24%
2012	2,016	+0.52%
2017	2,051	+0.34%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Arms of Godewaersvelde	The arms of Godewaersvelde are blazoned : Barry gules and vair.

Etymology and evolution of name

The name of the commune originally meant either "Godafritha's Heath" or "Godefried Fields", in old Flemish/Dutch. In modern French Flemish (Frans-Vlaams) it is Godsvelde, or Godewaersvelde (in the Franse Westhoek area of Nord Department). The modern Dutch name is Godewaarsvelde.

The name has been recorded as:

1295-1296: Gaudefroit camp
1300: Godeverdesvelde
1318: Godefroichamp^[5]
1918: Goedesversvelde

During the First World War, British soldiers nicknamed the town "Gerty Wears Velvet",^[6] and "God". A false etymology, dismissed by linguists and historians, has claimed that Godewaersvelde meant "God bless our fields".

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