Travel Guide Vergetot

Vergetot and Le Coudray now form the only municipality of Vergetot, a name derived from the Norse first name Valgarðr. Its church Saint-Pierre was built in 1787. Combining red brick, white flint and carved stone, the building has a certain distinction that its pediment and bell tower delicately support. As we walk through the cemetery, history reminds us of the Great War, commemorated by a monument to the anthropomorphic dead, the bust of a hairy man wearing his pea jacket and blue helmet, the moustache adorning a dignified face. From Vergetot soldiers left and fell in Turkey in 1915, or during the battles of the Somme and Meuse in 1916. The memory here goes hand in hand with that of the Second World War: Commonwealth graves are also found there.