Lignières-En-Vimeu: Holiday apartments and houses

A participatory budgeting project in Lignières-en-Vimeu was intended to teach children and residents about the way bees live and their importance for biodiversity, as well as to link the activity of the beehive with the ecosystem of the municipal pond.

Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Lignières-en-Vimeu can plan their stay specifically around this location.

Nature

In 2024, Lignières-en-Vimeu received one flower in the French Villes et Villages Fleuris label.

Culture and history

The Église Saint Valery was built in 1872 by Count and Countess Louis van der Cruisse de Waziers after the former village church collapsed. The Château de Lignières was built at the end of the 18th century by the Riencourt-Cassini family as a main building with two wings.

During the Allied bombing on 29 June 1944, which was intended to destroy the V-1 launch site in Bernapré, 746 bomb impacts were recorded in Lignières; the Château de Lignières was also damaged. The Château de Lignières was occupied from the end of May until 19 July 1944 by General Gerhard Garf von Schwerin, commander of the 116th Panzer Division.

The Château de Lignières was rebuilt around 1946 according to the same floor plan, but with simpler and less imposing architecture. It is privately owned and cannot be visited.

The ruins of the Abbaye Notre-Dame Foucarmont are located in the vicinity of Lignières-en-Vimeu. The Abbaye du Lieu-Dieu is a historic site in the wider regional surroundings of Lignières-en-Vimeu. The Château d'Eu is a palace in the wider regional surroundings of Lignières-en-Vimeu. The Abbaye de Notre Dame de Willencourt is a monastery in the wider regional surroundings of Lignières-en-Vimeu.

More local pages: L'étoile, Sentelie, Chépy, Forest-L'abbaye, Esclainvillers, Aumâtre, Le Crotoy, Feuquières-En-Vimeu.

To the higher-level travel overview: Somme.