Béthonsart

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Coat of arms of Béthonsart Coat of arms
Béthonsart
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Béthonsart
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Arras
Canton	Aubigny-en-Artois
Intercommunality	Atrebatie
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Richard Juras
Area1	4.21 km2 (1.63 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	167
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62118 / 62690
Elevation	119–157 m (390–515 ft) (avg. 144 m or 472 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Béthonsart is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France.

Geography

A small farming village located 12 miles (20 km) northwest of Arras on the D74.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	167	—
1968	152	−9.0%
1975	127	−16.4%
1982	126	−0.8%
1990	141	+11.9%
1999	131	−7.1%
2009	167	+27.5%

Sights

• A seventeenth-century farmhouse.
• The church of St. Elizabeth, dating from the sixteenth century

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Detail of the spire

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Béthonsart on the Quid website (French)