The hamlet of La Terrière, just under 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the northeast, which includes around forty houses and a church, is part of Vendhuile as to 1⁄4, and the rest is in the commune of Honnecourt-sur-Escaut in Nord.
Town planning
According to the terms of Insee and its zoning published in 2020, Vendhuile is a rural municipality, as it does not belong to any urban unit. The municipality is part of the functional area (aire d'attraction, commuting zone) of Saint-Quentin.[3]
History
Toponymy
Soldile appears in 1148 under the name of Vendulia in a cartulary of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Martin then Vendulium, Soldile, Soldille, Soldile-en-l'Empire, Vendhuille-Cambrésis, Vendhuille sur Cambrésis, Vendhuille on the Cassini map around 1750, and the current Vendhuile spelling at the end of the 18th century.[4]
18th century map
The pre-Revolutionary Cassini map above shows that Vendhuile lying on the Scheldt (Escaut). A water mill symbolized by a toothed wheel was on the river.
To the north, La Terrière is a hamlet (subsidiary place without a church).
The commune of Vendhuile is a member of the Intercommunalité of Pays du Vermandois, a Public Establishment for Inter-municipal Cooperation (EPCI) with its own tax system created on 31 December 1993 whose head office is at Bellicourt. The latter is also a member of other inter-municipal groupings.[6]
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