Campagne-lès-Guînes | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Campagne-lès-Guines.svg |
Arrondissement: | Calais |
Canton: | Calais-2 |
Insee: | 62203 |
Postal Code: | 62340 |
Mayor: | Bruno Demilly[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC Pays d'Opale |
Coordinates: | 50.8406°N 1.9047°W |
Elevation M: | 45 |
Elevation Min M: | 21 |
Elevation Max M: | 160 |
Area Km2: | 5.72 |
Campagne-lès-Guines (pronounced as /fr/, literally Campagne near Guines) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas de Calais region of France.[2]
A farming village located 10 miles (16 km) south of Calais, on the D248 and D215 road junction.
The meeting between Francis I and Henry VIII took place here at Campagne-lès-Guînes in 1546 to conclude the peace treaty of Ardres, which saw Boulogne returned to the French crown, for a sizeable sum of money.