- Source: Bouzincourt
Bouzincourt (French pronunciation: [buzɛ̃kuʁ]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
The name Bouzincourt is derived from the words for forest (bosquet) and the typical Picardy village suffix '-court' . It was therefore a wooded village.
Geography
Bouzincourt is situated on the junction of the D938 and D20 roads, some 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Amiens.
Places of interest
The church of St. Honore was destroyed during World War I but reconstructed in 1920 in the shape of a bullet. The tower is 36m high.
The stained-glass windows were restored by l'École de Nancy, and are worthy of attention.
The ‘muches’, man-made tunnels where the population hid during times of war.
Population
See also
Communes of the Somme department
References
External links
Bouzincourt, Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot (in French)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Komune di departemen Somme
- Villers-aux-Érables
- Beaucamps-le-Vieux
- Méricourt-l'Abbé
- Lignières-en-Vimeu
- Assainvillers
- Béthencourt-sur-Somme
- Maison-Roland
- Beaumetz
- Dreuil-lès-Amiens
- Bouzincourt
- Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery
- Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery
- Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- John Stanhope Collings-Wells
- Donal O'Sullivan (priest)
- Amiens
- Communes of the Somme department
- Tœufles
