Ponthoile is a village on the edge of the Somme estuary. We were travelling to the port of Saint Valery sur Somme and the sat nav brought us this way. This is the great thing about driving in France there are so many villages like this. That are waiting to be discovered most you will never have heard of.

The chateau farm in the photo had a for sale sign in June 2008 when we were there. It would make an ideal place to live the village still has a local school. The chateau looks like the one that Gaston and Rene Caudron made their first flight. In 1909 in airplane designed and built by them.

The second shows the church of Eglise Saint Pierre which dated back to the 13 century. It was burned down just before the battle of Crecy

The sign to the village and also a nearby camping site we did not see any B/Bs in the village.You can also see the local shop/ bar

Google street map of the village

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