Pihen-lès-Guînes

Pihen-lès-Guînes
region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Calais
Canton	Calais-1
Community association	Pays d'Opale
Coordinates	50 ° 52 '  N , 1 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '  N , 1 ° 47'  E
height	23-121 m
surface	9.25 km 2
Residents	499 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	54 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	62340
INSEE code	62657
Website	http://www.pihen-les-guines.fr/
Town hall (Mairie) in Pihen-lès-Guînes

Pihen-lès-Guînes ( Flemish : "Pittem") is a French municipality with 499 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pas-de-Calais in the region of Hauts-de-France ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Calais and the canton of Calais-1 (until 2015: canton of Guînes ). The inhabitants are called the Pihenois .

During the Battle of Britain between Pihen and Saint-Inglevert there was an important field airfield of the German Air Force .

geography

Pihen-lès-Guînes is about ten kilometers south-southeast of Calais . Pihen-lès-Guînes is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Bonningues-lès-Calais in the north and north-west, Saint-Tricat in the north-east, Hames-Boucres in the east and south-east, Caffiers and Landrethun-le-Nord in the south and Saint-Inglevert in the west.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2013
Residents	367	349	309	357	413	394	477	467
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

• Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation church from the 13th century
• Alenthun Castle
• La Rocherie Castle
• La Quennevacherie Castle from the 19th century
• Le Beauregard manor house
• Old Mill

Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation church

Web links

Commons : Pihen-lès-Guînes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ De Nederlanden in Frankrijk, Jozef van Overstraeten, 1969