Mouriez | |
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 The centre of the main village | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Mouriez  | |
  Mouriez  Mouriez | |
| Coordinates: 50°20′25″N 1°56′46″E / 50.3403°N 1.9461°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais |
| Arrondissement | Montreuil |
| Canton | Auxi-le-Château |
| Intercommunality | CC des 7 Vallées |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Christophe Dedours[1] |
| Area 1 | 15.72 km2 (6.07 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 239 |
| • Density | 15/km2 (39/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 62596 /62140 |
| Elevation | 30–127 m (98–417 ft) (avg. 75 m or 246 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Mouriez (French pronunciation: [muʁje]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.[3]
Located in the south of the department, the municipality has a surface area of 1,572 hectares. Its 246 inhabitants (2018) are spread over the town and three hamlets.
A small agricultural village in the southern Artois region, the main town is nestled in the heart of the Seven Valleys pays, the "green lung of the Pas-de-Calais", and in the hollow of one of the valleys in the hinterland of Montreuil, seven kilometers south of the town of Hesdin. This region is particularly renowned for the quality of its agricultural soils.
During the Middle Ages and in Early modern period, this proximity to Hesdin was an opportunity and sometimes a source of misfortune for the surrounding villages. Chance, because the town, thanks to its Drapery activity and its position as a crossroads, became a flourishing city. Misfortune, for the same reasons of wealth and traffic: these lands coveted and successively claimed by many Crowns, serve as a "boulevard" for predatory armies.
From the beginning of the 12th century, the village communities of Mouriez and neighboring parishes developed an almost "symbiotic" relationship with the Premonstratensian community established in the abbey of Dommartin, which gradually became the owner of most of the land on the plateau.
In 1834, the finalisation of the commune expanded while its population grew due to the suppression of the commune of Dommartin, after the disappearance of its abbey. The former territory of Dommartin is divided between the three bordering communes. For two centuries, the commune experienced a demographic decline mainly due to the rural exodus.
