Villers-au-Bois
Encyclopedia
Villers-au-Bois is a commune
in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
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and situated some 8 miles (12.9 km) northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D65 and D58 roads.
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...
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Geography
Villers-au-bois is surrounded by woodlandWoodland
Ecologically, a woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses. Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of...
and situated some 8 miles (12.9 km) northwest of Arras, at the junction of the D65 and D58 roads.
Population
Places of interest
- The church, dating from the sixteenth century.
- The large Commonwealth War Graves CommissionCommonwealth War Graves CommissionThe Commonwealth War Graves Commission is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves, and places of commemoration, of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars...
cemetery.