Caours

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Caours
Caours (France)
Caours
region Hauts-de-France
Department Somme
Arrondissement Abbeville
Canton Abbeville-1
Community association Baie de Somme
Coordinates 50 ° 8 '  N , 1 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 1 ° 53'  E
height 6-87 m
surface 6.13 km 2
Residents 603 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 98 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 80132
INSEE code 80171

Saint Martin Church

Caours ( Picard : Coeu ) is a northern French municipality with 603 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Somme in the region of Hauts-de-France . The municipality is located in the Arrondissement Arrondissement Abbeville and is part of the Communauté d'agglomération de la Baie de Somme and the Canton of Abbeville-1 .

geography

The community on the Scardon river , into which a small tributary, the Drucat coming from the north, flows, adjoins Abbeville to the northeast , from which it is roughly separated by the 1022 meter long Viaduc du Scardon, over which the A16 autoroute runs . The district of L'Heure belongs to Caours . On the route of the former railway line from Doullens via Auxi-le-Château to Abbeville, a hiking trail, the Voie Verte (Traverse du Ponthieu), is now led.

Toponymy and History

Caours is mentioned as the Corteanum in 636.

The Caours limestone tuff was formed in the Eem warm period . In the early days, groups of hunters camped here, as shown by excavations from 2005. In 1961 a Gallo-Roman sarcophagus was found. A Merovingian cemetery also emerged.

Residents

Development of the population
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2011
358 388 508 567 599 592 597 607

administration

Mayor ( maire ) has been Bernard Duquesne since 2014.

Attractions

  • Saint Martin Church
  • The chapel of L'Heure, to which pilgrimages were made on Whit Monday, with a Romanesque portal and choir from the 17th century, preserves a virgin with child
  • Manoir of L'Heure, partially registered as a monument historique in 1994
  • War memorial

  • Chapel of L'Heure

  • Manoir by L'Heure

  • War memorial

literature

  • Louis Flandrin: Un village du Ponthieu: Caours-L'Heure, Leclerc, Abbeville, 1994, 150 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://structurae.info/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0034506
  2. ↑ Manoir de l'Heure in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Caours  - collection of images, videos and audio files