Courset

Courset is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Courset
Commune
The church of Courset
Coat of arms
Location of Courset
Courset Courset
Coordinates: 50°38′49″N 1°50′32″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement	Boulogne-sur-Mer
Canton	Desvres
Intercommunality	CC Desvres-Samer
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Marc Denavaut
Area ^1	10.24 km^2 (3.95 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	515
• Density	50/km^2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	62251 /62240
Elevation	121–209 m (397–686 ft) (avg. 118 m or 387 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A farming and forestry village, some 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Boulogne, on the D127 road.

Population

Historical population of Courset

Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
Population	321	328	363	334	365	396
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

• The church of St. Maurice, dating from the sixteenth century.
• The nineteenth-century chateau de Courset.
• The seventeenth-century manorhouse of la Gaverie.
• Remains of an old castle.

See also

• Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.