Ponthoile
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Somme | |
| Arrondissement | Abbeville | |
| Canton | Abbeville-1 | |
| Community association | Ponthieu-Marquenterre | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 13 ' N , 1 ° 43' E | |
| height | 2-31 m | |
| surface | 19.41 km 2 | |
| Residents | 615 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 32 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 80860 | |
| INSEE code | 80633 | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-ponthoile.fr/topic/index.html | |
Ponthoile ( Picard : Pontoéle ) is a northern French municipality with 615 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Somme 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 Abbeville-1 .
geography
The municipality bordering the Somme estuary , bordered to the south by the Dien stream, with its hamlets of Morlay, Le Hamel, Romaine, Romiotte and Bonnelle, is largely in the foothills of the Marquenterre coastal plain . The railway line from Abbeville to Boulogne-sur-Mer and the meter railway line from Noyelles-sur-Mer to Le Crotoy with a stop in Morlay, which is operated as Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme as a tourist and museum railway, run through the municipality . The A16 autoroute runs just outside the municipality. The community is about five kilometers west of Nouvion .
history
In 1201, Ponthoile received a letter of freedom from Count Wilhelm IV of Ponthieu , which guaranteed the freedom of the community. In the Hundred Years War , English troops burned the church down in 1346. The strategic railway line to Feuquières , which opened in 1918 but was dismantled after the end of the First World War, started from Ponthoile .
Residents
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
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| 629 | 599 | 537 | 509 | 502 | 547 | 596 | 617 |
Attractions
- Saint-Pierre church in place of the old church that was demolished in 1836
- Replica of the Lourdes grotto on the road to Morlay.
- Memorial to the Caudron brothers in memory of the flight of the Romiotte I airship .
