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Montage Fiches Rando Leaflet Walks and hiking trails Haute-Somme and Poppy Country 8 Around the Thiepval Memorial (Autour du Mémorial de Thiepval) Peaceful today, this Time: 4 hours 30 corner of Picardy has become an essential Distance: 13.5 km stage in the Circuit of Route: challenging Remembrance. Leaving from: Car park of the Franco-British Interpretation Centre in Thiepval Thiepval, 41 km north- east of Amiens, 8 km north of Albert Abbeville Thiepval Albert Péronne Amiens n i z a Ham B . C Montdidier © 1 From the car park, head for the Bois d’Authuille. The carnage of 1st July 1916 church. At the crossroads, carry After the campsite, take the Over 58 000 victims in just straight on along the D151. path on your right and continue one day: such is the terrible Church of Saint-Martin with its as far as the village. Turn left toll of the confrontation war memorial built into its right- toward the D151. between the British 4th t Army and the German hand pillar. One of the many 3 Walk up the street opposite s 1st Army, fewer in number military pilgrimages to Poppy (Rue d’Ovillers) and keep going e r but deeply entrenched. Country, the emblematic flower as far as the crossroads. e Their machine guns mowed of the “Tommies”. By going left, you can cut t down the waves of infantrymen n At the cemetery, follow the lane back to Thiepval. i as they mounted attacks. to the left, ignoring adjacent Take the lane going right, go f Despite the disaster suffered paths, as far as the hamlet of through the Bois de la Haie and O by the British, the battle Saint-Pierre-Divion. Imposing continue toward the crossroads continued into November. chapel. and the Aveluy wayside cross. Since 1932, there has been a On your left, you will pass one 4 Before reaching the D151, take Memorial on the battle sites, of the many British Empire the left fork. At the intersection, commemorating the tragedy. cemeteries. Situated right there follow the path left, cross the This imposing 45-metre-high where the British soldiers fell, all road and continue as far as the arch made of brick and stone rests on 16 pillars. Engraved these cemeteries have a tall stone D73, ignoring adjacent paths. in the marble are the names 5 cross showing a bronze sword. Turn left and follow it as far as of over 72 000 British and 2 Turn left toward the D73. Thiepval. Turn left to get back to South-African soldiers who Nearby stands the Ulster where you started from. fell at the battle of the Tower, a replica of Ulster Castle Somme. near Belfast, in honour of Irish soldiers missing in action. Tourism Office: Poppy Country: Tel: 03 2275 1642 Cross the road and carry on www.tourisme-paysducoquelicot.com between the ponds and the 2 1 1 0 2 1 g n i r p S 5 , s e i p o c 0 0 0 1 • 0 8 g C . p m I : n o i t p e c n o C • 3 s o p o r P A : n g i s e D • m a e T e g a u g In the vicinity n a L n o s 8 km away, Albert: 19th-century Basilica of Notre- b i G Dame de Brebières (gilded statue of the Virgin), : n o Flemish-style Hôtel de Ville, Somme 1916 i t a l Underground Museum, public arboretum garden s n a (arboretum and waterfall), Vélodrome Ponds. r T Other sites on the Remembrance Circuit: • n i - Thiepval: Franco-British Memorial and Ulster t e r f Tower e D - Beaumont-Hamel: Newfoundland Memorial s e u - Ovillers-la-Boisselle: the Great Mine crater q c a J - Mametz: Memorial to the 38th Welsh division in : r the form of a dragon o h t - Longueval: Memorial and South-African Museum u 4 A - Pozières: Tank Memorial and Monument to the Australian Divisions. Signage Route Change of Wrong 0 0,25 0,5 0,75 1 km continues direction direction Route not suitable for motor This circuit is maintained by the Poppy Country. sports. Alternative route Map IGN 2407 O, 2407 E, 2408 O.
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