Crécy-en-Ponthieu

Administration
Commune of Crécy-en-Ponthieu
Location

Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Abbeville
Canton	Crécy-en-Ponthieu
Mayor	Régis Lecuyer (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	19 m–82 m (avg. 36 m)
Land area^¹	56,55 km²
Population^² (1999)	1577
- Density	27/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	80222/ 80150
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.

Crécy-en-Ponthieu is a small village and commune of the Somme département, in northern France, located south of Calais.

[edit] History

Crécy-en-Ponthieu is best-known as the site of the Battle of Crécy in 1346, one of the earliest and most important battles of the Hundred Years' War.

The Crécy museum is well worth a trip. One room is dedicated to the battle, with top class historical content and many artefacts and items on show. Another more modest room is dedicated to the Second World War.

The station shown on an old postcard

There was a station (Crécy-Estrées) on a branch of the Réseau des Bains de Mer which ran between Abbeville and Dompierre-sur-Authie. It opened on 19 June 1892 and closed to passengers on 10 March 1947 and freight on 1 February 1951.