Monsures

Monsures (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃syʁ]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Monsures is situated on the D210 and the D109 roads, some 16 miles (26 km) south of Amiens, in the southernmost point of the département, in the valley of the Selle river and surrounded by woods and forests.

Junction 7 of the A16 autoroute is just 4 miles (6 km) away A fort existed here at the end of the 9th century.

Originally known as Monsulae, in the 12th century, it belonged to the seigneurs of the nearby commune of Conty.

On 14 May 1923, a Farman F.60 Goliath of Air Union crashed at Monsures following structural failure of a wing in flight.