Sauvillers-Mongival

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Coordinates: 49°43′32″N 2°28′15″E / 49.7255555556, 2.47083333333

Commune of Sauvillers-Mongival

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes du Val de Noye

Mayor

Mme Christiane Depentis
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

49 m–111 m
(avg. 110 m)

Land area^¹

5,18 km²

Population^²
(2007)

202

- Density

34/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80729/ 80110

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.

Sauvillers-Mongival is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

1 Geography
2 Population
3 History
4 See also
5 External links
6 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated some 16 miles southeast of Amiens, on the D83 road.
A rural town mostly given over to agricultural activity, mainly timber, cereals and sugar beet, organised by a farming cooperative. In 1938, there were eleven farms.

[edit] Population

Population Evolution
1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007
154	164	133	148	164	179	202
Census count starting from 1962 Population without double counting

[edit] History

Mongival was formerly a hamlet, the name coming from the place ruined by the Spaniards during the siege of Corbie in 1636. In 1178, the city was known as Serpentwiler.
Sauvillers-Mongival was first mentioned in the 12th century. The seigneurie was bought in 1393 by the lords of Raineval.
During the First World War, the town was completely flattened, except for three houses. St. Martin’s church, rebuilt after 1918, dates back to the 19th century.
In July 1918, the town was liberated by French troops of the 87th infantry regiment. In 1959, a commemorative plate was fixed to one of the walls of the church tower to recall the sacrifice of these soldiers. A war memorial lists the members of the commune that died during World War I.
In the village cemetery are the graves of five British airmen that were shot down nearby in their Lancaster bomber in 1943.