Crécy-en-Ponthieu

Crécy-en-Ponthieu is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France, located south of Calais. It gives its name to Crécy Forest, which starts about two kilometres to the south-west of the town and which is one of the largest forests in the north of France. A very small river, the Maye, runs through the town.

Crécy-en-Ponthieu
Church of Crécy-en-Ponthieu
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardy
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Abbeville
Canton	Rue
Intercommunality	CC Ponthieu-Marquenterre
Mayor	Gérard Lheureux (2014–2020)
Statistics
Elevation	19–82 m (62–269 ft) (avg. 36 m/118 ft)
Land area1	56.55 km2 (21.83 sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	80222/ 80150
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

History

Crécy-en-Ponthieu is best known as the site of the Battle of Crécy in 1346, one of the earliest and most important battles of the Hundred Years' War. Yet there are other significant historical links. One is the Chausee Brunehaut which passed within two miles of the town and is the Roman road from Paris and Amiens to Boulogne, and is still visible and walkable today. And just to the north of the town, slightly to the west of where the Battle was fought, there was an airfield used in the Second World War.

Crécy-en-Ponthieu Media

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  The station shown on an old postcard

Other websites

• Media related to Crécy-en-Ponthieu at Wikimedia Commons