Etaples

Etaples is a commune within the Pas-de-Calais branch in northern France. It is a fishing and entertainment port at the Cache river. Etaples takes its name from having been a medieval staple port from which phrase the Old French word Estaples derives. As a port it became part of the administrative and economic complex focused on Montreuil after get right of entry to from the sea to that city was restricted via silting. The web site of contemporary Etaples lies at the ridge of dunes which once lay to seaward of a marsh fashioned off shore from the chalk plateau of Artois. From the Canche northwards, the dunes have a tendency to extend inland, all of the way to the old chalk cliff.

It laid just out of doors the southern edge of the mediaeval Boulonnais and a few eighteen kilometres south of the geological region of that name. They had therefore stabilized at something like their present shape by means of 2000 BC. The dunes to the north-west of the town have found out Iron Age, Goulash fabric. The dunes had been mounted as the ocean level rose during the Quaternary and display symptoms of habitation during the Paleolithic.