Bouzincourt

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Coordinates: 50°01′38″N 2°36′45″E / 50.0272222222, 2.6125

Commune of Bouzincourt
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Péronne
Canton	Canton d'Albert
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot
Mayor	M. Michel Thorelle (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	67 m–134 m (avg. 106 m)
Land area¹	8,11 km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	80129/ 80300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bouzincourt is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France. The name ‘Bouzincourt’ is derived from the words for forest(bosquet) and the typical Picardy village suffix '-court' . It was therefore a wooded village.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Places of interest 3 Population 4 See also 5 External links 6 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated on the junction of the D938 and D20 roads, some 18 miles northeast of Amiens.

[edit] Places of interest

• The church of St. Honore was destroyed during World War I but reconstructed in 1920 in the shape of a bullet. The tower is 36m high.
• The stained-glass windows were restored by l'École de Nancy, and are worthy of attention.
• The ‘muches’, man-made tunnels where the population hid during times of war.

[edit] Population

Population Growth

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
543	564	537	580	535	511
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] See also

Communes of the Somme department

[edit] External links

(All French language)

• site officiel de Bouzincourt
• site de la communauté de commune
• Bouzincourt sur le site de l'Insee
• Bouzincourt sur le site du Quid

[edit] Notes

• This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on January 28th, 2008.