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Neufchâtel-Hardelot

commune in Pas-de-Calais, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1025285 ↗
Source-derived summary

Neufchâtel-Hardelot (French pronunciation: [nøʃɑtɛl aʁdəlo]; Picard: Neucatel-Hardelot; West Flemish: Nieuwkasteel-Hardelo) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about 8 miles (13 km) south of Boulogne. The commune's western border is the English Channel.

History

The resort was designed by architect Louis Marie Cordonnier in the early 20th century.

Harriet Quimby, the first woman to fly across the Channel, flew from Dover to Hardelot-Plage on 16 April 1912.

Editorial summary

“Neufchâtel-Hardelot” enters the record as commune in Pas-de-Calais, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Neufchâtel-Hardelot, commune and Pas-de-Calais can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Neufchâtel-Hardelot, commune and Pas-de-Calais.
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“Neufchâtel-Hardelot” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Neufchâtel-Hardelot, commune and Pas-de-Calais provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1025285. VIAF identifies the subject as 157471931. The Library of Congress control number is no2006035079. Authority coordinates are 50.619, 1.641. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neufchâtel-Hardelot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.