- Wingles
French commune
name= Wingles
region=
departement=
arrondissement=
canton=Wingles (chef-lieu )
insee=62895
cp=62410
maire= Gérard Dassonvalle
mandat=2008-2014
intercomm=Communaupole de Lens-Liévin
longitude=2.85611111111
latitude=50.4947222222
alt moy=27 m
alt mini=14 m
alt maxi=36 m
hectares=593
km²=5,93
sans=8728
date-sans=2005
dens=1472|Wingles is a commune and chief town of a canton in the
Pas-de-Calais "département" in theNord-Pas-de-Calais region ofFrance .Geography
An ex-
coalmining area, now a farming and light industrial town, some convert|6|mi|km north of Lens, at the junction of the N47, D39 and the D165 roads.Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Leger, rebuilt along with the rest of the town, after
World War I .People with links to the commune
*
Émilienne Moreau-Evrard , French resistance heroine, was born at Wingles in 1898.See also
*
Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department External links
* [http://www.wingles.fr Official town website] fr
* [http://www.agglo-lenslievin.fr Website of the Communaupole de Lens-Liévin] fr
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=27376&req=Wingles Wingles on the Quid website] frNotes
*"This article is based on the equivalent article from the
French Wikipedia , consulted on September 2nd 2008."
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