Noyelles-sur-Mer
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Commune of Noyelles-sur-Mer |
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| Administration | ||
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Picardie | |
| Department | Somme | |
| Arrondissement | Abbeville | |
| Canton | Canton de Nouvion | |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du canton de Nouvion-en-Ponthieu | |
| Mayor | M. Michel Letocart (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 0 m–42 m (avg. 7 m) |
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| Land area¹ | 20,01 km² | |
| Population² (1999) |
742 | |
| - Density | 37/km² | |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 80600/ 80860 | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | ||
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
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Noyelles-sur-Mer is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.
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[edit] Geography
Situated on the coast, facing the English Channel, on the D11 and D40 junction, some 8 miles northwest of Abbeville.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Population
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 |
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| 894 | 939 | 908 | 813 | 802 | 742 |
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[edit] Places of interest
- The preserved railway, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
- The Chinese cemetery, where 838 Chinese workers are buried. Recruited by the British between 1917 and 1919 during and after the First World War, for the most part, they died of Spanish flu.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Noyelles-sur-Mer on the Insee website (French)
- Noyelles-sur-Mer on the Quid website (French)
- Website about the Chinese cemetery (French)
[edit] Notes
- This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on February 12th 2008.
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