Noyelles-sur-Mer

Noyelles-sur-Mer (, literally Noyelles on Sea) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography
Noyelles-sur-Mer is situated on the coast, facing the English Channel, on the D11 and D40 junction, some 13 km northwest of Abbeville.

History
On 20 May 1940 at 02:00 in the early morning, Noyelles-sur-Mer became one of the first French settlements on the coast of the English Channel occupied by the Wehrmacht during the Battle of France.

Railways
Noyelles has a railway station on the Boulogne–Amiens line. There is also a heritage railway at Noyelles, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, which formed part of the Réseau des Bains de Mer system. A dual gauge line goes to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, and a metre gauge line continues on to Cayeux. Another metre gauge line goes to Le Crotoy. A further metre gauge line, now closed, went to Forest-l'Abbaye, where it connected with the line between Abbeville and Dompierre-sur-Authie.

Places of interest

 * The preserved railway, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
 * The Chinese cemetery, in the village of Nolette, where 838 Chinese workers are buried. Recruited by the British as part of the Chinese Labour Corps between 1917 and 1919 during and after the First World War, for the most part, they died of Spanish flu.