Capelle-Fermont
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Capelle-Fermont is a commune
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

Geography

A small village located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Arras on the D49 road in the Scarpe valley.,

Population

Places of interest

  • The church of Notre-Dame, dating from the eleventh century.
  • The manor house
    Manor house
    A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...

    of Capelle Fermont


The walls bear the arms of Jean Grenet, a mayor of Arras, who died in 1539.
The mansion was restored in 1701 by the Preudhomme de Haillies family.

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