Sailly-Labourse

Sailly-Labourse
Sailly-Labourse
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Sailly-Labourse
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Béthune
Canton	Nœux-les-Mines
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Robert Copin
Area1	6.02 km2 (2.32 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	2,140
• Density	360/km2 (920/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	62735 / 62113
Elevation	19–41 m (62–135 ft) (avg. 29 m or 95 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.

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

Geography

Sailly-Labourse is a large farming and light industrial village situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Béthune and 24 miles (38.6 km) southwest of Lille, at the junction of the D943 and D65 roads.

Population

Historical population of Sailly-Labourse

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006
Population	1948	1957	1889	1750	1938	2013	2140
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. Maurice, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The eighteenth-century chateau de Prés.
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• The CWGC cemetery
• The CWGC graves in the churchyard
• Sailly-Labourse on the Quid website (French)