Vers-sur-Selles

Vers- sur- Selles ( Picard: ver -su - Selle ) is a northern French village with 744 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the department of Somme in the Picardie region. The municipality is located in the arrondissement of Amiens, is part of the Communauté d' agglomà Amiens Métropole, in the canton Boves.

Geography

The community in Amiénois in the southwest of Amiens is situated on both sides of the Selle; the municipal area extends northwest to the Territory road D1029 ( former Route nationale 29), is crossed by the department of roads D138, D8 and D210 and the Northeast of two stretches of motorway ( Autoroute A16 Autoroute A29 ) touched the branch here. The railway line Amiens - Rouen runs through the community; the station ( with a previous branch to Beauvais, now trail La Coulee Verte ) is shut down since the end of the 1980s.

History

In the town were, inter alia, Discovered flint tools and Neolithic and Merovingian burials. 1426 the village and its church were burned by English troops. The village was also burnt down in 1472 by the troops of Charles the Bold. The leper was repealed in 1617.

Population

Management

Mayor ( maire ) since 2001 Thierry Demoury.

Attractions

  • The church of Saint - Remi and Saint- Hildevert.

Personalities

  • Clovis Thorel (1833 - 1911), botanist, was born here.
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