Lecelles

Lecelles is a common French, located in the department of the Northern (59) and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Its name would come from Latin " Cella" meaning " cellule". Indeed the monks of the abbey of Saint-Amand-The-Water placed in cell located on the current territory lecellois. Years after years, of generations in generations, the name of the village with derived until its current name: Lecelles. Its inhabitants is called Lecellois.

Geography

Village located at the North-West of Saint-Amand-the-Water, on the border with the Belgium. Crossed by the Elnon, Affluent of the Décours itself flow of the Scarpe.

History

Basic Terroire valley, drained and emphasized under the implusion of the monks of the abbey of Saint-Amand water. Lecelles is a frontier village with the determining geographical position. Near to the border, he knew many attacks, conquests and reconquests and this, until 1713, date of the signature of the treaty of Utrecht. This treaty is that which fixed, in their almost final contours, the limits of the French territory. The border is there, all is made for us point out it, of the landscape particular to old constructions.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Commune of reception: many residents working in the close urban centres: Lille, Valencians. The agricultural vocation remains present in spite of the development of the urbanization related to the thickening of the rural areas around the Métropole inhabitant of Lille. Specialities: Mixed-farming, breeding Milk ier, culture of the strawberry

Places and monuments

Church Saint-Denis of the XVIIIe century.
Important bodies of farm in brick S, at square court, with imposing porches Pigeon S.
the Community Protesting E.
very developed Community life.

Events

Every year place with Lecelles has Run & Bike (test of race on foot and VTT in team of 2) last Sunday of June. This test, well not that always easy and more and more appraisal, proceeds in a family spirit. The course of 17kms unrolls wood, the bituminized roads, the paved ways and the fields surrounding Lecelles. The test is opened with all (a special test is opened to the children).

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of North

External bonds

Site of the commune of Lecelles
Lecelles on the site of the national geographical Institute
Lecelles on the site of INSEE
Lecelles on the site of Quid
Localization of Lecelles on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Lecelles on Mapquest

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