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Somme 1916 Museum
History museum
Underground museum exploring a soldier's life during WWI with tours, battlefield artifacts & a shop.
4.60 (1.7K reviews)
(~8.93 km from centre)
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Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
Memorial
👍👍 It's a fantastic and very moving battlefield of the Somme, run by the Canadian government with still intact British and German frontline fire trenches, cemeteries, monuments and more.
Highly recommend visiting.
The free car park has a lovely picnic area. The friendly and very polite Canadian tour gu...
4.80 (1.7K reviews)
(~1.28 km from centre)
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Lochnagar Crater
Historical landmark
👍👍 This is just one of 19 craters made at pretty much the same moment along a 9 mile ridge. The chain of detonations instantly killed an estimated 10,000 German soldiers.
The night before the detonation the guy in charge of the tunneling teams apparently said;
"Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are go...
4.70 (1.3K reviews)
(~8.14 km from centre)
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the Thiepval Museum
Museum
👍👍 We took a quick trip over to France from the U.K. to the Somme to visit Thiepval Memorial, sadly a relative of ours didn’t make it passed the Battle for Delville Woods in WW1 and like so many others his name appears on the wall of the memorial along side 72,337 other soldiers that have never been fo...
4.70 (957 reviews)
(~4.18 km from centre)
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Ulster Memorial Tower
Historical landmark
👍👍 As close to a "success" as the allies got to on the infamous 1st day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916. The Ulster division would have come charging up the hill from the wood behind you as you are entering the entrance gates to the tower. Even the brave Ulstermen had to abort in the end. Nob...
4.70 (648 reviews)
(~3.03 km from centre)
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Basilique Notre-Dame de Brebières
Catholic church
👍👍 The golden domed basilica dominates the skyline as sighted from our entry from the south from Rouen, it's an exotic so very anti-gothic against the architectural delights of Amiens and Rouen. It's wonderful but out of place eastern style arches Byzantine, its architect drowned in a myriad of styles...
4.60 (259 reviews)
(~8.94 km from centre)
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Musée de l’Épopée de l'Industrie et de l'Aéronautique
Museum
👍👍 It's huge as a museum there are all planes helicopters cars trucks rocket models various objects etc .....
The people who welcome you are charming and smile
For 5€ the entrance your not this private. Free parking
4.50 (177 reviews)
(~9.42 km from centre)
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public Garden
City park
👍👍 Public garden een openbare park niet ver van het centrum. Waar er kippen eenden en varkentjes zitten er ook loopt een rivier en waterval. Er zijn ook beelden te bezochten door heen het park en andere werken er bevindt zich ook de uitgang van de museum van le somme 1916.
4.50 (155 reviews)
(~9.15 km from centre)
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Pozieres Memorial
War memorial
👍👍 Stunning memorial commemorating more than 14,000 of the missing, the men of the British Empire who fell in the Somme area between March and August 1918. Casualties of the German Spring Offensive and subsequent battles who have no known grave.
The memorial stands in open countryside, about a kilomet...
4.80 (125 reviews)
(~6.9 km from centre)
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Sheffield Memorial Park
Memorial park
👍👍 Beautiful memorial to the Accrington and Barnsley pals battalions cut down on the first day of the Somme.
HOWEVER....we attempted to drive up the dirt track that is signposted as access to the site in our small van. Near the top of the lane we encountered who we assume to be the landowner in a Dacia...
4.90 (63 reviews)
(~2.45 km from centre)