Located on the edge of Cambrai and Avesnois Ors is a small green village crossed by the Canal de la Sambre Oise. The center of the town, on the left bank grouped around the church and the place is connected by bridge to the other side of the village. It is essentially a village farmland with its meadows, hedges and pollarded trees. Northwest of the village, crossing the railway line, there is a forest of 750 hectares, "wood Bishop," former possession of the Bishop of Cambrai. This forest is home pond Flaquet-Briffaut on the banks of which a polishing of sandstone dating from the early Neolithic is.
Formerly stood on the village square where a large market especially renowned farm products especially butter and "thief of Ors" neighbor Maroilles cheese made with skim milk were found.