Ocean Villas at Auchonvillers
10,
rue Delattre
80560 AUCHONVILLERS
Tel. : +33(0)3 22 76 23 66
tearooms@avrilwilliams.com
www.oceanvillas-tearooms.com
Avril Williams is from Britain and from 9am to 5pm
serves typical English food, such as fish and chips,
omelettes, soup, salads, and burgers in the Ocean Villas
Tea Rooms. Bookings can be made by contacting Cathy
Carnel at tearooms@avrilwilliams.com
Outside you can tour the
excavated trenches which lead to the cellars used by
British troops during the First World War as a first-aid
station.
Le Calypso at Longueval
Tel. +33 3 22 85 13 37 or +33 3 22 85 02 05
Run by the Mayor of the village, Monsieur Blondel,
Le Calypso I and Le Calypso II bar-restaurants are open
in the afternoon and evening, with prior reservation.
Le Poppy at La Boisselle
4, route de Bapaume
80300 LA BOISSELLE
Tel. : +33 3 22 75 45 45
This fine transport café prepares excellent
dishes of the day and special menus.
The Battlefields Experience at Mailly-Maillet
2,
rue des Cordeliers
80560 MAILLY-MAILLET
Tel/fax : +33 3 22 76 29 60
jackie-bedford@club-internet.fr
www.battlefieldsexperience.co.uk
Rod and Jackie Bedford live at Mailly-Maillet, in the
very heart of the Somme battlefields. They have three
rooms with bed & breakfast facilities (evening meals
also available). They organise tailor-made guided tours,
in France and in Belgium, for individuals or for groups
(motorbike tours of the battlefields can also be arranged).
Les Alouettes at Hardecourt-aux-Bois
10,
rue Mantier
80360 HARDECOURT-aux-BOIS
Tel: +33(0)3 22 85 14 56 or + 33(0)6 71 78 40 74
Fax: +33(0)3 22 85 14 56
lesalouettes2003@yahoo.co.uk
www.lesalouettes.net
Vic and Diane Piuk are British and members of the Western
Front Association and Friends of Lochnagar. They have
three ensuite rooms with bed and breakfast facilities
(picnic lunches also available).
Vic and Diane will be delighted to tailor-make a guided
tour for you either by car, on foot, or by cycle either
here on the Somme or in Flanders.
Their house has over 1500 books and numerous archive
videos, in particular veteran accounts related to the
Great War.
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Les Bieffes at Mailly-Maillet
27, rue Pierre Lefebvre
80560 MAILLY-MAILLET
Tel./fax: +33 3 22 76 21 44
Paulette Pécourt has three rooms offering bed
& breakfast facilities in her home, which used to
be a first aid post during the war.
Bernafay Wood at Montauban-de-Picardie
55, Grande rue
80300 MONTAUBAN-de-PICARDIE
Tel./fax: +33 3 22 85 02 47 or +33(0)6 11 18 05 09
bernafaywood@aol.com
Monsieur and Madame Matte, collectors and enthusiasts
of the First World War, have opened three rooms with
bed & breakfast facilities in what was the former
Montauban railway station, at the heart of Bois Bernafay.

Martine Warlop at Fresnes-Mazancourt
1, rue Génermont
80320 FRESNES-MAZANCOURT
Tel. : +33 3 22 85 49 49
Fax: +33(0)3 22 85 49 59
www.maison-warlop.com
martine.warlop@wanadoo.fr
Martine has 4 rooms with bed & breakfast facilities
in this attractive contemporary designed house; you
can also savour the delights of the local regional cuisine
and taste the local wines; gastronomy courses are also
organised.
Beaucourt Station
Philippe FERET
1, route d’Albert – 80300 BEAUMONT-HAMEL
beaucourt-station@wanadoo.fr
www.beaucourt-station.net
Tel: +33 (0)3 22 76 14 18 - 06 16 28 60 59 – Fax: ++33 (0)3 22
83 00 02
Open every day from 11am to 7pm.
Taken on the first day, the station was a rallying point
for the 63rd and it was from near here that Lieutenant
Colonel Bernard Freyberg launched his successful assault
on Beaucourt.
Snack: pizzas, salads, fish and chips, roast chicken,
sandwiches, etc
Tea Room: English tea (Tetley and Yorkshire), cakes
and ice-creams.
Shop: hand made crockery with poppies, products containing
poppies: syrup, liquor, candies, etc…