Ponthoile

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Coordinates: 50°12′59″N 1°42′48″E / 50.2163888889, 1.71333333333

Commune of Ponthoile

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes du canton de Nouvion-en-Ponthieu

Mayor

Martine Saint-Pol
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

2 m–31 m
(avg. 6 m)

Land area^¹

19,41 km²

Population^²
(1999)

547

- Density

28/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80633/ 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.

Ponthoile is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

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

[edit] Geography

Situated on the D235 road, some 10 miles northwest of Abbeville, near the bay of the Somme.

[edit] History

1201. Guillaume III, the ninth Count of Ponthieu, married Alix, the sister of King Philippe II of France. He issued a charter guaranteeing certain freedoms. This had been inspired by the Charter of Abbeville in 1184, which served as a model for all charters for the region of the Ponthieu.
1346. During the Hundred Years War, English troops burnt and pillaged the towns of the Ponthieu on their way to the Battle of Crécy. Ponthoile was attacked on Saint-Barthélémy’s day, the 24th August, just two days before the battle, burning down the 12th century church.

In the 13th century, there were 180 homes in Ponthoile, according to Dom Grenier. After the ravages of the wars against the English and Burgundians, according to English statistics, there were only 48. The population of Ponthoile subsequently increase slowly into the middle of the 19th century, before declining again, as farming became mechanisied and people left for the big cities

[edit] Demography

Population Growth
1698	1772	1831	1851	1860	1901	1921	1946	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
300	399	728	878	904	851	715	661	569	599	537	509	502	547
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] Places of interest

Memorial to the aviation pioneers, the brothers Caudron.
Church of Saint Pierre. Badly damaged by two fires, it was decided, in 1836, to build a bigger, better church in brick and slate.