What is Crécy-en-Ponthieu?
{{Infobox French commune |name = Crécy-en-Ponthieu |commune status = [[Communes of France|Commune]] |image = Crécy-en-Ponthieu église 1.jpg |image size = 280px |caption = Church of Crécy-en-Ponthieu |image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Crécy-en-Ponthieu 80.svg |arrondissement = Abbeville |canton = Rue |intercommunality = [[Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre|CC Ponthieu-Marquenterre]] |INSEE = 80222 |postal code = 80150 |mayor = Gérard Lheureux |term = 2014&ndash;2020 |coordinates = {{coord|50.2531|1.8839|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation m = 36 |elevation min m = 19 |elevation max m = 82 |area km2 = 56.55 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }} '''Crécy-en-Ponthieu''' is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Somme]] [[Departments of France|department]] in [[Picardie]] in northern [[France]], located south of [[Calais]]. It gives its name to Crécy Forest, which starts about two kilometres to the south-west of the town and which is one of the largest forests in the north of France. A very small river, the Maye, runs through the town. ==History== Crécy-en-Ponthieu is best known as the site of the [[Battle of Crécy]] in 1346, one of the earliest and most important battles of the [[Hundred Years' War]]. Yet there are other significant historical links. One is the Chausee Brunehaut which passed within two miles of the town and is the Roman road from Paris and Amiens to Boulogne, and is still visible and walkable today. And just to the north of the town, slightly to the west of where the Battle was fought, there was an airfield used in the [[Second World War]]. ==References== {{reflist}} == Other we