LindaSeaton Posted 8 October , 2006 Share Posted 8 October , 2006 Hi Does anyone know of a good map I can either buy or download and print off showing the location of Memorials on the Somme, we are staying at Avrils in Auchonvillers next month and want to take in as much as we can in the surrounding area and want to take a map with us Many thanks Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 8 October , 2006 Share Posted 8 October , 2006 This is useful http://www.webmatters.net/france/ww1_introfrance.htm When are you out? I'm back out at beginning of November for couple weeks. can't wait. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 8 October , 2006 Share Posted 8 October , 2006 Linda, although you ask for a map you could consider buying a guide book, possibly Major & Mrs Holts guide to the Somme, it is very imformative and gives suggested routes and it also comes with a separate map. If you cannot get that one perhaps a copy of Martin & Mary Middlebrooks Somme guide which has been my 'bible & constant companian' on many trips to the Somme. Good luck and have a great trip, Regards, Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 8 October , 2006 Share Posted 8 October , 2006 I always use 301 Local Michelin Pas-de-Calais, Somme along with the CWGC Cemeteries @ Memorials in Belgium @ Northern France. The 301 has little oblong boxes for british cemeteries. I still use these despite having GPS to get me around. I too have Martin and Mary Middlebrook's Somme Battlefields but not sure who stocks it as mine is a 1991 version. stevem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia Posted 8 October , 2006 Share Posted 8 October , 2006 Hi Does anyone know of a good map I can either buy or download and print off showing the location of Memorials on the Somme, we are staying at Avrils in Auchonvillers next month and want to take in as much as we can in the surrounding area and want to take a map with us Many thanks Linda Linda - I recently went on my first visit. I purchased the guidebook recommended by others - Mjr & Mrs Holts Guide with the map, on amazon.co.uk. I found the map easy to follow and it also served as our road map as it was the only map we had of the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaSeaton Posted 9 October , 2006 Author Share Posted 9 October , 2006 Auchonvillerssomme: just a short weekend (3-5th November), second short trip this year, can't wait either, I can't get enough of the place, so moving - brilliant website thanks! Have seen Major and Mrs Holts book - will try and get it online Steve: Will check out the Michelin Map - thanks for that Cockney Tone - will check out Martin and Mary Middlebrook's book - thanks! Padhraicin - seems like the Major and Mrs Holts book is a must - we dont have GPS, I have absolutely NO sense of direction at all (and I'm not joking!) BUT thankfully as I am not driving...... Thanks so much everyone for your replies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve fuller Posted 9 October , 2006 Share Posted 9 October , 2006 Or get a guidebook from the Library of you dont plan on reusing it of course. The Michelin Maps are very useful, as Steve says (I have several!). Definitely go for Map 301, the LOCAL one rather than a Regional one. Tesco's, various websites, EBay & Amazon sellers do some good deals too ... BTW, while youre at Avrils, get to Trones & High Wood. Spooky places! Was there recently but cant wait to get back again - very jealous!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted 9 October , 2006 Share Posted 9 October , 2006 Whilst book buying, and although a little old now, Rose Coombes' book Before endeavors Fade is worth getting. Incidentally....whilst at Avril's, have you visited the communal cemetery? Not the CWGC, but the little local one, about 100 years from Avril's, on the way to the Newfoundland Park....there are about a dozen CWGC headstones in there, against the left hand boundary....see what you think of them, and then imagine Tyne Cot like that! I will also be at Avril's...two weeks...can't wait. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Incomer Posted 9 October , 2006 Share Posted 9 October , 2006 Yes twelve members of the Border Regt killed by a shell 6th April 1916-if my memory serves me correctly also the grave of a CWGC gardener. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havrincourt Posted 9 October , 2006 Share Posted 9 October , 2006 Hi Does anyone know of a good map I can either buy or download and print off showing the location of Memorials on the Somme, we are staying at Avrils in Auchonvillers next month and want to take in as much as we can in the surrounding area and want to take a map with us Many thanks Linda Hello Linda Both Holts Somme book and Coombes Before Endeavors Fade would be ideal, both have maps and great detail concerning the memorials and cemeterys Have a good trip Regards Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelab Posted 10 October , 2006 Share Posted 10 October , 2006 And if you don't manage to find the books before your trip, try the excellent bookshop in the Thiepval Monument museum (I got BEF there earlier this year). I am sure I saw the Holts' guide at Peronne Historial too. Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaSeaton Posted 10 October , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 October , 2006 Wow so many replies, thanks guy's! I ordered the Holts Book from Amazon yesterday, should be here in a few days! Steve: Went to High Wood earlier on in the year but havent been to Trones, will definately bookmark that one Bruce and the Incomer, thanks for that, will bookmark that one too! Thanks for that Andy and Angela Must admit, I absolutely cannot wait to get out there! Avril's and The Somme here we come! Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaSeaton Posted 11 October , 2006 Author Share Posted 11 October , 2006 auchonvillerssomme: am going to the Somme with Roy (GrandadJohnConnell) that you helped out on the 'Western Front' forum - thanks for helping him, he's over the moon about finding out that information! Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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