Leaflet Walks and hiking trails Haute- and Poppy Country 3 The Clos Bouteille

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1 Leaving the car park for the the Grand Jardinet wood. stocked with pike, brill and Mairie-école in Pargny, head for 4 Reach . Go through the more, are a fisherman’s dream. the . Step across village. Pass the village hall and 6 Continue past Fontaine-les- the canal. Follow the road as far the country church. On your Pargny, then return to Pargny. as . right, take the D15, which This is an important battle-of- crosses the pond of Monsieur the-Somme site. The British l’Homme, then a bridge over the The Canal du Nord military cemetery, one of the Canal de la Somme as far as Opened to shipping in 1964, largest in the department, Béthencourt-sur- Somme. the Canal du Nord is contains 265 graves of soldiers Beside the present-day town hall 64.2 km long. It forms a link between the valley of the from England, Scotland, Ireland, is Saint-Barthélemy’s Spring, which t and the Dunkerque- Australia and New Zealand. goes back to the 18th century. s Escaut canal. The idea for it 2 Cross the Somme. In Falvy, turn It was credited with curing eye e r was born twenty years after

right. Walk past the cemetery, in diseases. The inhabitants continued e the Freycinet plan to provide front of the church. to take water from it until 1960. t n better navigation capacity i

The church of Sainte-Benoîte The church is dedicated to than the Saint-Quentin in Falvy, a listed building, was Saint-Barthélémy. f canal, and its construction originally Romanesque, but was You can see a statue of him. O was begun in 1908. It was tastefully remodelled in the 5 As soon as you come into interrupted by both world Gothic style in the 15th century Béthencourt- sur-Somme, follow wars and the economic by Marie de Luxembourg. Inside, the towpath for about three difficulties between the wars. she had a magnificent chapel kilometres. The village has a Plans are in place to relieve built, considered to be a German military cemetery with the Canal du Nord with the Seine-Nord-Europe canal. masterpiece of Gothic art. 1 242 graves. The ponds, well 3 Follow the marshes. Go through Tourism Office Haute-Somme, the Étang Brûlé wood, then cross Tel: 03 2284 4238 the plain. Continue alongside www.hautesomme-tourisme.com 2

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In the vicinity

14 km away is Ham, with its Château dating from the 13th century, and transformed by the Luxembourg family in the 15th century. In 1846, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from there disguised as a builder called "Badinguet"; The Crypt of the Abbey Church of Notre-Dame, built at the end of the 12th century is a blend of Romanesque and Gothic. It is considered as one of the most beautiful crypts in northern and contains the recumbent effigies of Odon IV, lord of Ham from 1216 to 1234, and Isabelle de Béthencourt, his wife; The station frescoes depict the château, the sugar industry, wheat growing and the insignia of the 5 4 communes and lords. 7 km away in Nesle, is the P'tit Baltar, a cabaret club. The architect of this establishment was none other than Gustave Eiffel. It is a pavilion from the 1890 World’s Fair, dismantled and reassembled in Nesle in 1900 for the ironmongers Gobin and A D Deloire. Collegiate church of Notre-Dame, with its u e t s Art-Deco façade, in the town centre. h i g o n r : :

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