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Ors

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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.

Geographical information

MunicipalityOrs
Postcode59360
Latitude50.1058800 (N 50° 6’ 21”)
Longitude3.6355170 (E 3° 38’ 8”)
AltitudeFrom 133m to 167m
Surface area17.76 km²
Population647 inhabitants
Density36 inhabitants/km²
PrefectureLille (91 km, 1:15)
Insee code59450
IntercommunalityCA du Caudrésis et du Catésis
DepartmentNord
TerritoryFlandre-Artois
RegionHauts-de-France

Nearest cities & towns

Pommereuil4.1 km (5 min)
Fontaine-au-Bois4.6 km (9 min)
Catillon-sur-Sambre4.6 km (8 min)
La Groise6.5 km (11 min)
Bazuel6.6 km (9 min)
Landrecies7 km (10 min)
Forest-en-Cambrésis7.9 km (11 min)
Le Cateau-Cambrésis8.1 km (11 min)
Mazinghien8.9 km (14 min)
Croix-Caluyau9 km (11 min)
Fesmy-le-Sart9.4 km (12 min)
Le Favril9.4 km (12 min)
Ribeauville10 km (15 min)
Bergues-sur-Sambre10.1 km (12 min)

Things to see and do

Check out the site of a former fortress "La Malmaison" built by Nicolas Fontaine, Lord Bishop of Cambrai in 1255 and completely dismantled in 1429. Today remain on the ground contours and the location of the three speakers, with the first six rounds, rectangle oriented north-east, in a circle 160 meters in diameter with a dungeon itself within a third circular enclosure .

The Chapel of the Hermitage, 15th and eighteenth century, located near a famous miraculous fountain is dedicated to Notre Dame de Bonsecours. Nearby, on the other side of the road, an old tavern is still in service.

A little further on the 959 Departmental near the military camp, the forest is home. It will host during his last days the soldier-poet Wilfred Owen in the cellar where he wrote the last letter to his mother entitled "smoky cellar of the forest house" before being killed on the banks of the Sambre canal at Oise, Nov. 4, 1918. Today, the forester's lodge through New Sponsors of the Fondation de France, a work of art. The English artist Simon Patterson with the help of architect Jean-Christophe Denise has made this house a visual and sound work is presented in which the poetry of Owen. Only the cellar remained unchanged.

Events and festivities

The second Sunday of February instead of Ors Strides, Golf 3.5 and 10 km.

The Sunday before August 15, secondhand 300 exhibitors.

August 15, communal feast with a Mass at 10:30 am at the Chapel of the Hermitage in the woods and the Bishop afternoon jousting on the pond jousting in the village center, carnival and concert.

November 4, commemorating the death of Wilfred Owen, the famous British poet killed on the banks of the canal Nov. 4, 1918.

Weather

Friday 19 april
Min. 5°C - Max. 10°C
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Saturday 20 april
Min. 3°C - Max. 9°C
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Sunday 21 april
Min. 3°C - Max. 11°C
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Visits, leisure and activities nearby

Outings

Last nameOuting typeDifficultyDurationDeparture municipality
Cambrai Baroque
HikeEasy20 minCambrai (30 km)

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