Ponthoile

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Ponthoile

|commune status = Commune

|image = Ponthoile Mairie-école.JPG

|caption = The town hall and school in Ponthoile

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Ponthoile 80.svg

|arrondissement = Abbeville

|canton = Abbeville-1

|INSEE = 80633

|postal code = 80860

|mayor = Henri Poupart{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = CC Ponthieu-Marquenterre

|coordinates = {{coord|50.2164|1.7133|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 6

|elevation min m = 2

|elevation max m = 31

|area km2 = 19.41

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Ponthoile ({{IPA|fr|pɔ̃twal}}) is a commune in the Somme department of Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

Ponthoile is situated on the D235 road, some 15 km northwest of Abbeville, near the bay of the Somme.

History

In 1346, during the Hundred Years War, English troops burnt and pillaged the towns of the Ponthieu on their way to the Battle of Crécy. Ponthoile was attacked on Saint-Barthélémy's day, 24 August, just two days before the battle, burning down the 12th-century church.

In the 13th century, there were 180 homes in Ponthoile, according to Dom Grenier. After the ravages of the wars against the English and Burgundians, according to English statistics, there were only 48. The population of Ponthoile subsequently increase slowly into the middle of the 19th century, before declining again, as farming became mechanisied and people left for the big cities

Demography

{{Historical populations

| 1698|300

| 1772|399

| 1793|581

| 1831|727

| 1836|781

| 1851|878

| 1861|876

| 1901|851

| 1921|715

| 1946|661

| 1962|629

| 1968|599

| 1975|537

| 1982|509

| 1990|502

| 1999|547

| 2007|603

| 2012|618

| 2017|615

| source = EHESS (1793-1999){{Cassini-Ehess|27586|Ponthoile}} and INSEE (1968-2017)[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-80633#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

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}}

Main sights

Memorial to the aviation pioneers, the brothers Caudron.
Church of Saint Pierre. Badly damaged by two fires, it was decided, in 1836, to build a bigger, better church in brick and slate.

Ponthoile-église.JPG|Saint-Pierre Church.

Ponthoile, Somme, Fr, monument aux frères Caudron..jpg|Caudron's Memorial.

Ponthoile-réplique de la grotte de Lourdes.JPG|Lourdes Grotto.

Ponthoile, chapelle à Romaine.JPG|Chapel Fromentin, Romaine.

Ponthoile Romaine gare.jpg|Former railway station in Romaine.

Ponthoile-Morlay-Piste cyclable et circuit du héron..JPG|Roadsign in Morlay.

Ponthoile-Romaine-1.JPG|Stork in Romaine.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20190328144051/http://www3.mairie-ponthoile.fr/ Ponthoile municipal website] {{in lang|fr}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080320201529/http://www.mairie-ponthoile.fr/charte.htm Charter of the commune of Ponthoile] {{in lang|fr}}

Category:Communes of Somme (department)