Saint-Étienne-au-Mont explained

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont should not be confused with Saint-Étienne-du-Mont.

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (pronounced as /fr/; pcd|Sant-Étienne-au-Mont; obsolete nl|Sint-Stevensbergen,) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France near Boulogne-sur-Mer.^[2] Besides the main settlement Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, the commune consists of the two smaller settlements Pont-de-Briques and Écault.

Geography

Saint-Étienne-au-Mont is a small farming and light industrial town situated some 3miles south of Boulogne, at the junction of the D52 and D940 roads. The Liane river flows from the north of the commune to the south-east. Beyond Écault lies the English Channel (in the west).

Places of interest

• The church of Sainte-Thérèse, a nineteenth century church.
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery (including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery)^[3] created during World War I for men of the Chinese Labour Corps and of the South African Native Labour Corps.
• The sand dunes along the beach and Aréna (a centre in Écault dedicated to the world of dunes).
• The Château d'Audisque, dating from the eighteenth century and a registered monument.
• The Pont-de-Briques, a bridge across the Liane
• The view from the Chapelle d'Écault (the church is also known as l'Église de Saint-Étienne and dates from the twelfth century)

Hiking

To get a good idea of the area you can walk the Sentier de la Converserie.^[4] The name is derived from the Converserie, a building on the site of a former leper colony. It encompasses Le Chemin des Juifs^[5] and passes Aréna and the Château d'Hardelot (now the Centre Franco-brittanique de l'Entente Cordiale^[6]) as well as the local cemetery (which contains de CWGC cemetery).

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department
• Chinese Labour Corps

External links

• Official town website
• The St. Etienne-au-Mont Communal Cemetery on the website "Remembrance Trails of the Great War in Northern France"
• ARENA - Centre d'interprétation de l'environnement

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
2. https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/62746-saint-etienne-au-mont INSEE commune file
3. http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/28706 The CWGC cemetery at St. Etienne-au-Mont
4. http://www.agglo-boulonnais.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/05-Tourisme_et_nature/randonnees/randonnees-pedestre/Sentier-Converserie-FR.pdf Leaflet describing the route on the Boulonnais website
5. http://www.saintetienneaumont.com/index.php/vie-municipale/conseil-municipal/file/66-cr-2016-03-03?tmpl=component The Way of the Jews on the Saint-Etienne-au-Mont website
6. http://www.chateau-hardelot.fr/ The Château d'Hardelot website