Paper Tiger Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I've been looking around on Google Earth and that Portale place to find the names of the farms in Grainville, Gavrus and around that general area but I'm finding little to no information. Can anyone give me some authentic names that I can use in their place? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Le Farm? Regards KR 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastamon Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 One I stayed at East of Falaise....Ferme de la Hamberie Nice place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 One thing I've noticed in making my La Nicollerie and Choisy maps from Google Earth is that farms aren't labeled directly -- but if you turn on all the labels for roads as well as places, and zoom way in, look for whatever little road or lane leads into a farm. Usually the road bears the name of that farm (La Nicollerie) or hamlet (Hameau Choisy). In Normandy (and I suppose in Calvados too), farm names tend to start with "Le XXX" or "La XXX" or "Hotel XXX." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Speaking of Google Earth and your campaign maps in this area, Paper Tiger... One huge favor you and BFC could do for us, if you would be so inclined, would be to post a Google Earth screenshot showing the boundaries of the areas that your authentic maps are covering (using white outlined polygons, for example, and ideally listing the GPS coordinates of the NW and SE corners) This would help players orient themselves to the sites of battles -- and for the rest of the mapping community, it would show us exactly where we might need to make maps of our own to fill in any gaps. For example -- I've got the whole Epsom-Hill 112-Jupiter area on 200m per hex wargame maps from Panzer Grenadier (Avalanche Press), for use as an operational layer. But I'm going to wait and see what parts of this area BFC is covering before I make any CMBN battle maps of my own for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkelried Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 In France farms are often named after the family which lives on it or which founded it or then after the location they are built on. One possibility is to look in the French phone book Pages Blanches. Put in the name of the village and the zip code into the "Où" (where) field and put ferme (Farm) into the "Nom" field. And you'll get a list of farms like: Ferme des Brosses Ferme des Peupliers Ferme du Chateau La ferme du Fresnois Ferme de la Grange Dimière Of a google search with "ferme grainville eure" will give you La Chesnaie Le Petit Moutard Ferme de Bray Ferme des Muttes The names you find on maps often are names of hamlets. Small assemblies of several farmsteads. If you require the name of a specific farm, you could send me the coordinates and i'll have a look what i can dig up on French sites. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbmtintin Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 As far as I am leaving in Normandy, I can give you a hand. Just ask me precisely something, and I'll try to help you. I think winkelried has a really good way to find names. You must know that in Normandy there are not only farms (!), or not only with a "farm" name. There is a lot of "Hameaux" (hamlets in English I think, hameau in singular), which is a group of houses. They often have a single name without "farm" ("Le Foc", "La Rouxelière"). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkelried Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 A good source could also be the French cadastre - and there is even an English version :-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holien Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Excellent thread and I hope the designers can take note as I have seen a few scenarios where using French names or any name is way better than location X etc.... Just adds a bit to the experience for me anyway... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paper Tiger Posted December 7, 2011 Author Share Posted December 7, 2011 Thanks a lot for the info guys. I am really, really pushed for time just now as I'm getting ready for my Xmas holiday so I won't have much time for CMBN for about a month. But very quickly, I am particularly interested in the farms in and around: Le Haut du Bosq (I think I've got these though) between Collevile and Tourville Grainville Gavrus I'll check out Google Earth more carefully sometime later and have a look at that cadastre site as well. The campaign will not go into Hill 112 so feel free to do what you want with it. But honestly, I wouldn't worry about duplicating my stuff either as I'm sure you guys will do a more authentic job of it than I have time to do BTW, I used to speak French quite well when I was a yound chappie but it got rusty as I grew older. And after I moved to Indonesia and learned Indonesian I can't produce any anymore. When my students ask me if I can speak French, I say 'a bit' but when I try, all that comes out of my mouth is in Indonesian. Shame as it's such a beautiful language... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 I have some original maps issued to uk forces in 1944. Very few Farm h=names are mentioned on the maps except those around Vendes, Rauray and Haut du Bosq which you say you have (La Grande Ferme, St Nicolas Ferme, La Bijude Ferme, Barbee Ferme, La Petite Ferme, Ferme Du Guiberon, Ferme de Montbrocq). On my map of Gavrus no farms are named although from the map places like Gavrus and Les Villains are literally 8 buildings and a church! Very different from today. Near Granville Sur Odon and Le Valtru there are no individual farms names - the smallest settlement being named is Cahier about 500m west south ewst of Le Valtru - being 4 buildings. All of the farms are visible on the map but very few are named. Those that are names like those above do appear in the AARs and war diaries but those that arent dont seem to be... The only other farm in the UK sector that I can find named if Ferme De L'Etang, about 1k south of Maltot (scene of major fightling during operation Jupiter involving 502ss Heavy Panzer Bttn) Hope this helps - in essence if they arent named on the map they would have just been referred to by Grid Reference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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