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Noyelles-sur-Mer
Noyelles-sur-MerAdministration Country France Region Picardy Department Somme Arrondissement Abbeville Canton Nouvion Intercommunality Canton of Nouvion-en-Ponthieu Mayor Michel Letocart
(2001–2008)Statistics Elevation 0–42 m (0–138 ft)
(avg. 7 m/23 ft)Land area1 20.01 km2 (7.73 sq mi) Population2 860 (2006) - Density 43 /km2 (110 /sq mi) INSEE/Postal code 80600/ 80860 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. Coordinates: 50°11′04″N 1°42′35″E / 50.1844°N 1.709722°E
Noyelles-sur-Mer is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.
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Geography
Noyelles-sur-Mer is situated on the coast, facing the English Channel, on the D11 and D40 junction, some 13 kilometres (8 mi) northwest of Abbeville.
Railways
Noyelles has a station on the Boulogne - Amiens line. There is also a heritage railway at Noyelles, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, which formed part of the Réseau des Bains de Mer system. A dual gauge line goes to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, and a metre gauge line continues on to Cayeux. Another metre gauge line goes to Le Crotoy. A further metre gauge line, now closed, went to Forest-l'Abbaye, where it connected with the line between Abbeville and Dompierre-sur-Authie.
Population
Population history 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 894 939 908 813 802 742 860 Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates Places of interest
- The preserved railway, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
- The Chinese cemetery, in the village of Nolette, where 838 Chinese workers are buried. Recruited by the British as part of the Chinese Labour Corps between 1917 and 1919 during and after the First World War, for the most part, they died of Spanish flu.
One of the gravestones at Noyelles-sur-MerThe entrance to the Chinese cemetery at Noyelles-sur-MerSee also
References
External links
Media related to Noyelles-sur-Mer at Wikimedia Commons- Noyelles-sur-Mer on the Quid website (French)
- Website about the Chinese cemetery (French)
- Another website about the Chinese cemetery (French)
Categories:- Communes of Somme
- Somme geography stubs
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