museum
Louvre-Lens
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
16 km · about 20 min drive
Hauts-de-France, France · Europe
Richebourg-l'Avoué is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Violaines, 60km from De Panne Beach.
Richebourg-l'Avoué is a town located in Hauts-de-France, France. With a population of 2,560, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Richebourg-l'Avoué sits in France, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Paris time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Richebourg-l'Avoué to your route.
The Attack on the Boar's Head (30 June 1916) was an operation at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France, during the First World War. Troops of the 39th Division, XI Corps in the First Army of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), advanced to capture the Boar's Head, a salient held by the German 6th Army. Two battalions of theRead more
116th Brigade, with one battalion forming carrying parties, attacked the German front position before dawn on 30 June. The British took and held the German front line trench and the second trench for several hours, before retiring to their lines having suffered 850–1,366 casualties.
The operation was conducted when the British Armies on the Western Front north of the Somme, supported the Fourth Army during the Battle of the Somme (1 July to 18 November). The British Third Army, First Army and Second Army conducted 310 raids against the Germans up to November 1916, harassing the Germans opposite to give novice divisions experience of fighting on the Western Front, to inflict casualties and to prevent German troops from being transferred to the Somme. From 19 to 20 July, XI Corps conducted the much bigger Battle of Fromelles, where British and Australian troops suffered an even greater number of casualties.
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Richebourg-l'Avoué is located in Hauts-de-France, France, Europe. The coordinates are 50.5700 latitude, 2.7488 longitude.
Richebourg-l'Avoué has a population of approximately 2,560 people, making it a town in France.
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museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
16 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
21 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
23 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
33 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
33 km · about 40 min drive
cafe
The abbey café opposite Saint-Sixtus monastery in Westvleteren: effectively the only place on earth to reliably drink Westvleteren 12, long rated the world's best beer, at the source with a slab of abbey cheese.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Lutyens' immense brick arch commemorates 72,000 missing of the Battle of the Somme.
58 km · about 65 min drive
beach
Belgium's widest sandy beach, famous for land-yachting and bordering the wild Westhoek dunes near the French border.
60 km · about 70 min drive
April to October
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