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The Département de La Somme is one of three
departments (or counties) in the Picardy region (and there
are 22 regions in France), the other two departments being
the Aisne and the Oise. Any map of Northern France will
get you either direct to the battlefields or to Amiens.
Once you get there, you will need maps such as:
Visitor's Map > Practical Map :
- recto : Great War sites of the Western Front
- verso : Great War sites of the Somme Battlefields
Information about access and accommodations.
IGN serie verte (green series, 1 cm/1 km), No 4, Arras-Laon,
covers the battlefield area; or;
For greater detail, or for walking, use:
IGN serie bleue (blue series, 1 cm/250 metres); nos. 23/07,
24/07, 25/07, 23/08, 24/08 and 25/08 will take you from
Doullens and Amiens in the west of the battlefield area
of the Somme to Albert in the centre and Péronne
and the River Somme to the south. It is often possible to
retrace historic events and military movements on these
maps.
Tourist Offices can supply local maps. |
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Other maps cater specifically for history
or battlefield enthusiasts, or for ramblers/cyclists. |
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
has recently published the Michelin Road Atlas: Cemeteries
and Memorials in Belgium and Northern France. Michelin,
the principal continental map publishers, have produced
for the Commission a new compact road atlas covering
the areas with the densest population of war cemeteries
in northern France and Belgium, including Normandy.
The atlas, with road maps in Michelin's 1:200,000
series overprinted to show the location of each Commonwealth
cemetery and memorial, comes with an alphabetical
index and is available price £7.00 direct from
the CWGC (10.00 Euros from its offices in France and
Belgium). It supersedes the overprinted maps nos.
51, 52 and 53 that it previously produced. |
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Major & Mrs. Holt’s Battle Map of the Somme |
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Guidebooks covering the area usually include good
maps |
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Somme Tourism provide a useful
map of the Somme, with the Circuit of Remembrance
marked on it; |
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Local information (sometimes
with local maps) is available from tourist offices
in towns (Albert, Amiens Doullens, Péronne)
and from the Départment de la Somme at www.somme-tourisme.com
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