Welcome to ault

Located at the edge of the Manche and in the south of the department of the Somme, Ault has chalk cliffs overhanging a pebble beach (and of sand with low tide). In the south of the commune of which it depends, is a large residential wood, the Wood of Cise, in a small dry valley which gives on the littoral and has its own access to the sea.
In the north of the commune, the cliff finishes on the level of the beach of Onival-sur-Me, which also depends on the commune of Ault.

The whole is followed of what they call Hâble-d' Ault, i.e. grounds and rather marshy enherbés spaces gained on the sea.

•  The Saint-Pierre church, dating from XV and XVI centuries, has an architecture in stone checkerworks and flint. (local recourse to the resource of the rollers of flint sea)
• War memorial close to the Saint-Pierre church, sculpture of Paul Landowski.
• The vaults of Onival and the Wood of Cise date from the XIX century.
• Many old houses, and since 1860, still have fort pretty ceramics multicoloured, sandstone or plates of Christian name of the completely worthy house d' interest.
• The headlight d' Ault, located at Onival-sur-Mer, out of white ceramics, whose lantern of finds with 106 meters above the sea level.
•  The “balcony on the sea”, at the top of cliffs, offers a point of view on the sea. * The national semaphore of the navy, built on the remainders of an old vacation camp.
• Cliffs (with precautions and without approach the edge, nor to go downwards because of the frequent crumblings). They are the last cliffs of the coast before the dunes (towards North).
• The beaches of Ault, of the Wood of Cise and Onival-sur-Mer. The latter is a mixed beach of rollers and sand, between cliffs with the south and the dunes in North. The gathering of mussels is prohibited on the beaches of Ault, Wood of Cise and Mers the Baths.
• Hâble-d' Ault, favourable with the walks and excursions on paths and stony paths. With d' possibility; to admire nature and the many flying species.

The seaside resort of Bois-de-Cise is resulting from the allotment of a wooded small dry valley. The latter formed is a vaster forest, which the size ceased to reduce since grubbings of the monks Benedictines during the Middle Ages and their setting in progressive culture (source: Monborgne).

You find still not far from Bois-de-Cise the wood of Rompval (commune of Mers-les-Bains) and that of Lamotte (commune of Saint-Quentin-la-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly), dependent on this same old forest. Under the Old mode, Bois-de-Cise, hunting ground, belong to Chatellenie d' Ault whose also the castle depends on the Mound rebuilt after 1794, commune of Saint-Quentin-la-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly). Tourist guides specify us the history of the grounds at the 19th century, with some uncertainties: wood belonged to the origin with the Delorgne family (or Delegorgue?) of Souplicourt; in 1853 (or 1863), it passes between the hands of the president of the Chamber of commerce of Dieppe, certain a Saint-Hilaire-Dufour, who made an appointment of hunting of them.

This last yields it in 1883 to Mr. Chardin, remaining in Tréport (Seine-Maritime). Jean-Baptiste Theulot, wine merchant with Mercurey (Saône-et-Loire) and nephew of Large Louis, founder of the close station of Onival (common d' Ault), buys its first grounds of Bois-de-Cise worms 1896 imposition of the land register in 1899), in this same Chardin (source: cadastres of the undeveloped properties).

A schedule of conditions is established on February 5, 1898, regulating the allotment of almost 500.000 square meters of grounds, divided into 400 batches whose surface varies from 180 with more than 1700 square meters, the variable prices according to the situation on the site, from 8 to 25 francs the square meter in 1898 (source: Theulot and Monborgne).