Yonval
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region | Hauts-de-France | |
Department | Somme | |
Arrondissement | Abbeville | |
Canton | Abbeville-2 | |
Community association | Baie de Somme | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 5 ' N , 1 ° 47' E | |
height | 6-82 m | |
surface | 3.93 km 2 | |
Residents | 227 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 58 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 80132 | |
INSEE code | 80836 |
Yonval is a French municipality with 227 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Somme in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Abbeville arrondissement , the Abbeville-2 canton and the Baie de Somme municipality .
geography
Yonval is four kilometers southwest of Abbeville and 2.8 kilometers southeast of Cambron in the Somme Valley on the 28 motorway .
history
During excavations, traces of two Gallo-Roman villas were found, so the place was already settled in Gallo-Roman times (52 BC to 5th century AD).
On June 4, 1940 during World War II , the Battle of Abbeville ended in the area between Yonval and the hamlet of Bienfay de Moyenneville . A stele was erected in Yonval to commemorate this battle and the 15th French infantry regiment .
The municipality of Yonval was not established until 1985, before the place was part of Cambron.
economy
The image of the community is determined by pastures and fields. Important occupations of the Yonvalois are arable farming and the breeding of domestic cattle and domestic pigs.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Yonval on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved October 31, 2009.
- ↑ Yonval. In: Structurae
- ^ Revue archéologique de Picardie. N ° 3-4, 2005. La recherche archéologique en Picardie: Bilans et Perspectives pages 177-222, especially footnote 6 on p. 180 (French).
- ^ Richard Holmes: Fatal Avenue: A Traveller's History Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945 . Pimlico, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84413-938-5 , pp. 186 f . (English).
- ^ Yonval from cassini.ehess.fr (French), accessed October 31, 2009.
- ↑ Yonval on cc-abbevillois.fr ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in French.