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Seninghem

commune in Pas-de-Calais, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ262342 ↗
Source-derived summary

Seninghem (French pronunciation: [sənɛ̃ɡɑ̃]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Geography

Seninghem is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Saint-Omer, on the D204 road.

Population

Places of interest

The seventeenth-century church of St Martin.

The seventeenth-century chapel of Notre Dame.

The ‘Arcs de Triomphe’ at the cemetery entrances.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Seninghem” as commune in Pas-de-Calais, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Seninghem, commune and Pas-de-Calais.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 57-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Seninghem, commune and Pas-de-Calais providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q262342. Authority coordinates are 50.703, 2.034. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Seninghem” 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.