The springs of the Somme, 5 km from the cottage

Its valley, carved along a 145 km course, forms an intricate pattern of streams, marshes, ponds and canals. The Somme flows into the Channel at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme.

At the foot of the springs stood the Abbey of Fervaques, from the Latin “Ferventes aquae”, gushing waters. After the abbey was destroyed, the Bernardine sisters settled in Saint-Quentin, on the site of today’s Palais de Fervaques, which kept the name.