Ovillers-la-Boisselle

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Coordinates: 50°01′56″N 2°41′55″E / 50.0322222222, 2.69861111111

Commune of Ovillers-la-Boisselle

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot

Mayor

M. Gérard Margotin
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

80 m–153 m
(avg. 115 m)

Land area^¹

9,61 km²

Population^²
(1999)

371

- Density

38/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80615/ 80300

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.

Ovillers-la-Boisselle is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

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

[edit] Geography

Situated on the D929 road, some 22 miles northeast of Amiens.

[edit] Population

Population Growth
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
312	333	336	390	392	371
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] History

The commune consists of the two villages of Ovillers and La Boisselle, which were destroyed during World War I. It was the site of heavy fighting during the 1916 Battle of the Somme, and particularly during the first day on the Somme.

[edit] Places of interest

The Gordon Dump Cemetery.
Lochnagar Crater, testimony to the ravages of the Battle of the Somme is 100 metres in diameter and 30 metres deep. It was created on the 1st July 1916, the first day of the battle.