Noyelles-sur-Mer station

Noyelles-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [nwajɛl syʁ mɛʁ], literally Noyelles on Sea) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Ponthoile (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃twal]) is a commune in the Somme department of Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Boismont (French pronunciation: [bwamɔ̃]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Saigneville (French pronunciation: [sɛɲvil]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Port-le-Grand is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

The Battle of Blanchetaque was fought on 24 August 1346 between an English army under King Edward III and a French force commanded by Godemar du Fay. The battle was part of the Crécy campaign, which took place during the early stages of the Hundred Years' War. After landing in the Cotentin Peninsula on 12 July, the English army had burnt a path of destruction through some of the richest lands in France to within 20 miles (32 km) of Paris, sacking a number of towns on the way. The English then marched north, hoping to link up with an allied Flemish army which had invaded from Flanders. They were outmanoeuvred by the French king, Philip VI, who garrisoned all of the bridges and fords over the River Somme and followed the English with his own field army. The area had previously been stripped of food stocks by the French, and the English were essentially trapped. Hearing of a ford at Blanchetaque, 10 miles (16 km) from the sea, Edward marched for it and encountered the blocking force under du Fay. Once the ebbing tide had lowered the water level, a force of English longbowmen marched partway across the ford and, standing in the water, engaged a force of mercenary crossbowmen, whose shooting they were able to suppress. A French cavalry force attempted to push back the longbowmen but were in turn attacked by English men-at-arms. After a mêlée in the river, the French were pushed back, more English troops were fed into the fight, and the French broke and fled. French casualties were reported as over half of their force, while English losses were light. Two days after Blanchetaque, the main French army under Philip was defeated at the Battle of Crécy with heavy loss of life. Edward ended the campaign by laying siege to Calais, which fell after twelve months, securing an English entrepôt into northern France which was held for two hundred years.

The Canal de la Somme is a canal in northern France. Its total length is 156.4 km with 25 locks, from the English Channel at Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme to the Canal de Saint-Quentin at Saint-Simon.

Blanchetaque (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃtak]) is a former ford crossing of the River Somme, in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The name of the ford is derived from the white stones marking the way across the river. Saigneville was on the southern side of the ford, before the construction of the Canal de la Somme. The ford was the site of the Battle of Blanchetaque in 1346, during the Hundred Years' War, between an army of King Edward III of England and a French force led by Godemar I du Fay.

The Somme (UK: SOM, US: SUM, French: [sɔm] ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is 245 km (152 mi) in length, from its source in the high ground of the former Arrouaise Forest at Fonsomme near Saint-Quentin, to the Bay of the Somme, in the English Channel. It lies in the geological syncline which also forms the Solent. This gives it a fairly constant and gentle gradient where several fluvial terraces have been identified.

Favières (French pronunciation: [favjɛʁ] ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Sailly-Flibeaucourt is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Cahon (French pronunciation: [kaɔ̃]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.