Saint-Martin-Boulogne

Saint-Martin-Boulogne
Commune
The church of Saint-Martin-Boulogne
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Martin-Boulogne
Saint-Martin-Boulogne Saint-Martin-Boulogne
Coordinates: 50°43′36″N 1°37′58″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Boulogne-sur-Mer-2
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération du Boulonnais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Raphaël Jules
Area 1	13.15 km2 (5.08 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	10,999
• Density	840/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62758 /62280
Elevation	3–188 m (9.8–616.8 ft) (avg. 80 m or 260 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Martin-Boulogne is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Saint-Martin-Boulogne is a farming and light industrial suburb east of Boulogne itself, at the junction of the N42 and D96 roads. Junctions 30 and 31 of the A16 autoroute lie within the commune's borders.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
10,876	12,020	12,341	11,271	11,054	11,499	11,710
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The church of St.Martin, dating from the eighteenth century.
• The modern church of Sts.Bernadette and Yde.
• The Château de La Caucherie, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The Château du Denacre, dating from the eighteenth century.
• Three 17th century farmhouses and manorhouses.
• A fifteenth century windmill and the ruins of a watermill.
• The Meerut Military Cemetery (Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery).

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Official town website (in French)
• The CWGC cemetery
• The Meerut Military Cemetery on the website "Remembrance Trails of the Great War in Northern France"