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Wiry-au-Mont

commune in Somme, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ839860 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wiry-au-Mont (French pronunciation: [wiʁi o mɔ̃]; Picard: Wéry-au-Mont) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

The commune is situated 16 km (10 miles) south of Abbeville, on the D936 road.

Population

Places of interest

The war memorial

The old railway line

The railway was opened on 9 May 1872 and was used principally from freight, although some passengers were carried.

It was finally closed on 10 November 1993.

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The public source identifies “Wiry-au-Mont” as commune in Somme, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wiry-au-Mont, commune and Somme.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wiry-au-Mont” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.