La Boisselle is a settlement dating back to pre-Roman times. The D 929 Albert–Bapaume road follows the course of a Roman road. After the Battle of Bapaume during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the village suffered serious damage. A farmstead that existed on the present site was ruined during the war and eventually demolished in 1883 by its owners, the Berchon family. The farm was later rebuilt and expanded before the First World War; it was a place of armed struggle during the first war on surface trenches and in depth with mining galeries and mines explosions opposing french then British troops against German troops. It shows several mine craters and a mining galerie. The terrain was never modified after WW1.