Ferfay

Ferfay
Coat of arms
Ferfay
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Ferfay
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Béthune
Canton	Auchel
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes Artois-Lys
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gaston Nicolle
Area1	3.89 km2 (1.50 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	880
• Density	230/km2 (590/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62328 / 62260
Elevation	65–112 m (213–367 ft) (avg. 106 m or 348 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.

Ferfay is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Geography

A former coalmining and now a farming village some 10 miles (16.1 km) west of Béthune and 31 miles (49.9 km) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D341 and the D91 roads.

Population

Historical population of Ferfay

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
Population	893	1015	910	888	920	880
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of St.Lugle-et-Saint-Luglien, dating from the nineteenth century.
• The ruins of a chateau destroyed in 1944.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• Ferfay on the Quid website (French)