Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Motte castrale
Somain, Nord, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Motte castrale et ses fossés (cad. A 1610, 1611) : inscription par arrêté du 6 décembre 1978
- Protection dates
- 1978/12/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Au Bois de Villers
- Commune
- Somain
- Département
- Nord
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.36107, 3.26526
- Mérimée reference
- PA00107824
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Countie of Hannonia. Hanonia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Nearby in the register
- Château de Villers-Campeauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Ancien prieuré de Beaurepaireprieuréunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bonsecourschapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.
Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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