Forest-l'Abbaye
Forest-l'Abbaye | |
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.jpg) The church in Forest-l'Abbaye | |
Location of Forest-l'Abbaye  | |
  Forest-l'Abbaye  Forest-l'Abbaye | |
| Coordinates: 50°12′10″N 1°49′24″E / 50.2028°N 1.8233°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Somme |
| Arrondissement | Abbeville |
| Canton | Abbeville-1 |
| Intercommunality | CC Ponthieu-Marquenterre |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2001–2008) | Albert Levoir |
| Area 1 | 3.3 km2 (1.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | 317 |
| • Density | 96/km2 (250/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 80331 /80150 |
| Elevation | 29–63 m (95–207 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Forest-l'Abbaye is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
The commune is situated on the D105 road, on the edge of the forest of Crécy, 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of Abbeville.
History
There was a station on the Réseau des Bains de Mer located on the line from Abbeville to Dompierre-sur-Authie, opened on 19 June 1892. Forest-l'Abbaye was the junction for the branch of the Réseau des Bains de Mer to Noyelles-sur-Mer, which opened on 24 August 1892. The station and both lines closed to passengers on 10 March 1947. The line to Abbeville closed to freight on that date, but the line to Noyelles remained open to freight until 1 February 1951.
Population
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
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| Population | 340 | 356 | 322 | 290 | 307 | 306 | 317 |
| From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once. | |||||||
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