Memorial · Méricourt · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Borne commémorative is a memorial in Méricourt, Pas-de-Calais. This place has an audio tour of about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch. Within 330 m you'll find a bench.
Audio tour · Borne commémorative
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You're standing in Méricourt, in the old coal-mining country of northern France. It may look quiet now, but deep beneath your feet, on 10 March 1906, Europe's worst ever mining disaster took place. Officially, 1,099 miners died. Méricourt alone lost 404 of them.
Read and hear the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No water point, public toilet, bike pump or food stand within 1 km.
46 well-known points of interest nearby, those with an audio tour first.
When you stand at Borne commémorative, the Outdoor Pitstop app tells the story of the place in about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch.
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