Rombly (old village)

History

Rombly , of Latin Romiliacum , called Romblyo with the Life century, is an old village disappeared today, near the commune of Lefaux and located between the communes of Camiers and Étaples in the French department of the Pas-de-Calais, on the Côte of Opal. It was buried under sands in 1646. The legend tells that the event occurred in only one night of storm. The inhabitants then joined the village of Lefaux.

One century later, during the drafting of the Registers of grievances by the assembly of the three states of Bolted on March 16th, 1789, it will be refers to this event in these terms:

to prevent a so unhappy fate that of the village of Rombly, there would be a sure and unquestionable guarantor by a plantation of sea reeds; progress of the aforesaid sands having made us lose more than one third of our territory and making us a great wrong on avestures of our grains which are while having…

With the site of the disappeared village draws up the wood of Rombly today, that a hiking trail of the same name crosses.

See too

Common of Common Lefaux,
Common of Camiers,
of Étaples.

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