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The Route nationale 29 is a highway in Normandy and Picardy, northeast France. It connects the city port of Le Havre with Amiens, Saint-Quentin and the Belgian frontier. Most of the route has been superseded by the A29 autoroute. [1]
The road starts 52 km to the east of Le Havre at Sainte-Marie-des-Champs near Yvetot at a junction with the D 6015 (former N 14). The road (now numbered D 929 heads east crossing the A29 autoroute. It passes the town of Yerville and at Tôtes has a junction with the N 27. The road continues east until Saint-Saëns where a road joins the A 28. The old road is now numbered the D 929 and passes through the town and Forêt d’Eawy. The road joins the old N 28 (now D 928) and heads into the town of Neufchâtel-en-Bray.
North east of Neufchâtel the former N 29 recommences-s at a junction with the A29 autoroute and D 928. Thereafter the road is numbered the D 929 until the town of Aumale where it becomes the D 1029. The road by-passes to the north of the town of Poix-de-Picardie and then turns north-east into the city of Amiens.
The road leaves Amiens to the south-east along the Avre valley before turning east in a long straight road through Villers-Bretonneux and close to a 1st World War memorial to the Australian Army. The road crosses the A1 autoroute at Estrées-Deniécourt. It then passes the old N 17 (now D 1017) and the Canal de la Somme. The road passes more war cemeteries before entering the town of Saint-Quentin over the A26 autoroute. Between Amiens and Longueau, it was the former N 35 and between Longueau and Saint-Quentin, the former N 336.
The road continues over the Somme (still numbered the D 1029) and is now also numbered E 44. The roads cross the Canal de la Sambre à l’Oise. It turns north-east to the town of Guise crossing the River Oise. The road crosses the Forêt du Nouvion before entering the town of La Capelle and a junction with the D 1043 and N 2 close to the frontier with Belgium. Between Saint-Quentin and La Capelle, the road was numbered N 30 before.
At its creation, the N 29 had a different itinary east of Amiens. It was heading to Albert and Bapaume (now as D 929). Then it was heading to Cambrai (now as D 930 in Pas-de-Calais and as D 630 in Nord). Then, to Bouchain, Valenciennes and to the Belgian border (now still as D 630).
The Pays de Bray is a small natural region of France situated to the north-east of Rouen, straddling the French departments of the Seine-Maritime and the Oise. The landscape is of bocage, a land use which arises from its clay soil, and is suited to the development of pasture for the raising of dairy cattle. It produces famous butters and cheeses such as Neufchâtel.
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