Coordinates: 50°01′56″N 2°41′55″E / 50.0322222222, 2.69861111111

Commune of Ovillers-la-Boisselle
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Péronne
Canton	Canton d'Albert
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Pays du Coquelicot
Mayor	M. Gérard Margotin (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	80 m–153 m (avg. 115 m)
Land area¹	9,61 km²
Population² (1999)	371
- Density	38/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	80615/ 80300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Ovillers-la-Boisselle is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

Geography

Situated on the D929 road, some 22 miles northeast of Amiens.

Population

History

The commune consists of the two villages of Ovillers and La Boisselle, which were destroyed during World War I. It was the site of heavy fighting during the 1916 Battle of the Somme, and particularly during the first day on the Somme.

Places of interest

• The Gordon Dump Cemetery.
• Lochnagar Crater, testimony to the ravages of the Battle of the Somme is 100 metres in diameter and 30 metres deep. It was created on the 1st July 1916, the first day of the battle.

British trench (The Cheshires)

Lochnagar crater from World War I.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department
• Sausage Valley

Notes

• This article is based on the original and the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on March 12th 2008.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Ovillers-la-Boisselle

• Gordon Dump Cemetery (English)
• Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Insee website (French)
• Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Quid website (French)
• Lochnagar Crater (English)

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