Vismes

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Coordinates: 50°00′46″N 1°40′24″E / 50.0127777778, 1.67333333333

Commune of Vismes

Location

Administration

Communauté de communes de Blangy-sur-Bresle

Mayor

Nicolas Plé
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Elevation

71 m–124 m
(avg. 79 m)

Land area^¹

13,26 km²

Population^²
(2004)

323

- Density

23/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

80809/ 80140

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.

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

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

[edit] Geography

Situated some 10 miles(16km) southwest of Abbeville, on the D190 road

[edit] History

The chateau of Vismes was built by the seigneurs of Vismes, as documented by Théobald in 1066 (the name of Vismes could then be written with or without the "s"). The Marquis de Belleval added: "the ruins still stood in the last century". The castle was destroyed by John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1372. The Seigneurie of Vismes passed to the house of Cayeu in the 14th century and then to that of Monchy in the following century, until 1785 when André de Monchy died.
Between 1790 and 1794 Vismes absorbed the hamlets of Morival,Le Plouy and Wiammeville.