Hallue

The Hallue is a river of Picardy, affluent of the Somme (Right Bank).

Geography

Hallue runs on 15,8 kilometers, through the Amiénois, according to a North-South direction, of its source with Contay (only to 54 m of altitude) with Vecquemont where it joins the Somme. The following the example of Scardon, its valley dries continues upstream over a length of at least 15 kilometers until Mailly-Mallet. The course of the river, broad from 2 to 4 meters and bordered of poplar plantations, is strongly urbanized, beam of many small agglomerations: Bavelincourt, Beaucourt-on-the Hallue, Montigny-on-the Hallue, Béhencourt, Fréchencourt, Querrieu, Daours, Bridge-Noyelles. Reinforced by a small affluent, the Noelle , Hallue has a reduced, but considerable flow for a river this length, of 1,5 m ³ /s with the discharge system. It is thus the agriculture which rythma life of the inhabitants working on the many grounds dependant on the Abbaye S of Corbie and Saint-Vaast of Arras; in Fréchencourt, one of rare the mill S still visible of the valley, testifies to activities of flour-milling related to the production of Céréale S. At the end of the 19th century, of the textile activities (Bonneterie, weaving) settled, thanks to the investments of industrialists amiénois, with Daours and Bridge-Noyelles

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