Noyelles sur Mer

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Country France Department Somme Population (2006) 860 Local time Monday 9:09 PM		Region Hauts-de-France Canton Nouvion Area 20.01 km² Arrondissement Abbeville

Intercommunality Canton of Nouvion-en-Ponthieu Weather 11°C, Wind SW at 26 km/h, 89% Humidity

Train bb 67590 en gare de noyelles sur mer

Noyelles-sur-Mer is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Map of 80860 Noyelles-sur-Mer, France

Cimeti re chinois de nolette noyelles sur mer 14 18 hd

Geography

Noyelles-sur-Mer is situated on the coast, facing the English Channel, on the D11 and D40 junction, some 13 kilometres (8 mi) northwest of Abbeville.

Railways

Noyelles has a station on the Boulogne - Amiens line. There is also a heritage railway at Noyelles, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, which formed part of the Réseau des Bains de Mer system. A dual gauge line goes to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, and a metre gauge line continues on to Cayeux. Another metre gauge line goes to Le Crotoy. A further metre gauge line, now closed, went to Forest-l'Abbaye, where it connected with the line between Abbeville and Dompierre-sur-Authie.

Places of interest

The preserved railway, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme

The Chinese cemetery, in the village of Nolette, where 838 Chinese workers are buried. Recruited by the British as part of the Chinese Labour Corps between 1917 and 1919 during and after the First World War, for the most part, they died of Spanish flu.

References

Noyelles-sur-Mer Wikipedia

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