Ouve-Wirquin

Ouve-Wirquin
Location of Ouve-Wirquin
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Saint-Omer
Canton	Lumbres
Intercommunality	Pays de Lumbres
Government
• Mayor	Jean-Claude Obert
Area 1	5.25 km2 (2.03 sq mi)
Population  (2006)	538
• Density	100/km2 (270/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62644 /62380
Elevation	52–137 m (171–449 ft) (avg. 59 m or 194 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ouve-Wirquin is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Ouve-Wirquin lies about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Saint-Omer, on the junction of the D225 and the D341, the route of the Roman road the Chausée Brunehaut. The river Aa flows through the commune.

Population

Population history

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
457	490	478	486	486	484	538
Census count starting from 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest

• The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the nineteenth century.
• An eighteenth-century watermill.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Ouve-Wirquin on the Quid website Template:Fr