Favières () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography The commune is situated on the D140 road, from the estuary of the river Somme, some northwest of Abbeville.

Railway Favières is served by a halt on the metre gauge railway from Noyelles-sur-Mer to Le Crotoy. The railway is now a heritage railway, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme, which formerly formed part of the Réseau des Bains de Mer.

Personalities Aeronautical engineering pioneers Gaston Caudron (1882) and René Caudron (1884) were born in Favières.

Population

See also Communes of the Somme department

References

External links

Caudron brothers website