Pont L'évêque

Name: Pont L'évêque
Address: Sempigny, FR

1.2Sempigny, France

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Maximum draught: 1.7 m

Canal halt at Sempigny near Noyon, on the Canal latéral à l'Oise, with 10 berths and up to 1,7 m draught.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Reached via the Canal latéral à l'Oise between Janville and Chauny. Freycinet gauge, standard bridge clearance of about 3,50 m. No tidal constraint. Give way to commercial péniches on the canal.

Practical

Ten places along a wooden pontoon, water and power bollards. Overnight fee paid at the machine or with the local association. Boulangerie and small shops at Pont-l'Évêque village 300 m away, larger supermarkets at Noyon about 3 km to the S.

Ashore

Noyon cathedral Notre-Dame, a 12th century early Gothic building where Charlemagne was crowned King of Neustria in 768 and Hugh Capet King of the Franks in 987, about 3 km from the halt. Birthplace museum of Jean Calvin in the same town.

History

Noyon was a royal coronation site in the early Middle Ages and an episcopal city until the French Revolution. The Canal latéral à l'Oise was opened in 1838 to bypass the unreliable navigation of the Oise upstream of Janville.