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Map of La Boisselle pre-1914?


Nick Thornicroft

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Does such a map exist showing the houses/church/buildings etc. prior to the War? The Ovillers Trench Map (57D SE4) is just slightly too small to show any great detail.

Many thanks

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Nick, I used to be able to make geoportail fly with this, as the 1900 imagery town and contour mapping was really good. They've changed the interface recently and I'm struggling a bit at the moment. I can bring up the 1866 Cassini in high resolution (buildings) but not the 1900 Etats-Major. Try your luck at http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil and search on Pozieres and navigate SW.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Dear Nick,

You may visit the Internet site of the public records of the Somme ('Archives départementales de la Somme') :

Search for the maps of 'cadastre napoléonien'.

For La Boisselle and Ovillers-la-Boisselle : http://archives.somm...age=1&page_ref= & http://archives.somm...12576uUPlZG/1/1

You may found also Great War numerised archives of the Somme on http://archives.somme.fr/

Kind regards,

Olivier

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