Argoules
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Somme | |
| Arrondissement | Abbeville | |
| Canton | Rue | |
| Community association | Ponthieu-Marquenterre | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 21 ′ N , 1 ° 50 ′ E | |
| height | 6-77 m | |
| surface | 9.45 km 2 | |
| Residents | 326 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 34 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 80120 | |
| INSEE code | 80025 | |
 Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours chapel |
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Argoules ( Picard : Argoule ) is a northern French municipality with 326 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France . The municipality is located in the arrondissement of Abbeville and is part of the Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre and the canton of Rue .
geography
The municipality is located around 13 kilometers north-north-west of Crécy-en-Ponthieu on the left (southern) bank of the Authie river , which forms the border with the Pas-de-Calais department ; a bridge connects it with Saulchoy on the right bank. On the hill to the west, the hamlet of Petit Chemin (with Saint-Christophe) belongs to it with its northern part (the south is part of the municipality of Dominois ). Downriver the hamlet of Petit Préaux is divided between Argoules and Nampont ; the mill is already part of the neighboring department. The former Cistercian Abbey of Valloires with its botanical garden lies in the valley between Argoules and Petit Préaux .
history
The Valloires Monastery was ruined in the Thirty Years War .
Residents
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| 460 | 446 | 560 | 451 | 363 | 335 | 335 | 330 |
Attractions
- Cistercian Abbey Valloires , Monument historique Ancienne abbaye de Valloires in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Valloires Botanical Garden
- Saint-Germain Church, Monument historique
- Octagonal Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours chapel built in 1836
- Castle from the 16th century, restored in the 19th century in neo-Gothic style, registered as a monument historique in 2009 Château d'Argoules in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Linden tree with a trunk circumference of four meters
Refectory wing of the Valloires monastery
Castle and Church
Linden tree
Personalities
- Thérèse Papillon (1886–1983), founder of the children's home in Valloires Abbey
