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In Flanders Fields Museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
14 km · about 25 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Ploegsteert works well as a base: 5 minutes from Frelinghien, 46km from De Panne Beach.
Ploegsteert is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 4,352, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Ploegsteert sits in Belgium, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Brussels time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Ploegsteert to your route.
Ploegsteert (French pronunciation: [pluɡstɛʁ]; Dutch pronunciation: ['pluxsteːrt]; Picard: Ploster) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Comines-Warneton, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
It is the most westerly settlement of Wallonia. It is approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi)Read more
north of the French border. Created in 1850 on part of the territory of Warneton, it includes the hamlet of Le Bizet, which is the border with France (there is also a hamlet named "Le Bizet" in France). It is largely francophone, with facilities for Dutch speakers.
In late 1914 and early 1915, the nearby Ploegsteert Wood was the site of fierce World War I fighting. Today there are numerous cemeteries and memorials, including the Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) CWGC Cemetery and the Berks CWGC Cemetery Extension with the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing, which commemorates more than 11,000 British and Empire servicemen who died outside the Ypres Salient and have no known grave. From January to May 1916, Winston Churchill served in the area as Commanding Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Another nearby burial ground is the Lancashire Cottage Cemetery.
As part of Comines-Warneton, Ploegsteert was declared a sister city of Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, England, in 2006; this was partly initiated through the finding of letters from a 16-year-old soldier from Wolverton named Albert French. He is buried in Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, just outside the village.
The village is home to a carpentry museum.
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Ploegsteert is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7266 latitude, 2.8802 longitude.
Ploegsteert has a population of approximately 4,352 people, making it a town in Belgium.
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museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
14 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Lively old quarter of Flemish brick gables and grand squares, the cultural capital of the French north.
16 km · about 20 min drive
cafe
The abbey café opposite Saint-Sixtus monastery in Westvleteren: effectively the only place on earth to reliably drink Westvleteren 12, long rated the world's best beer, at the source with a slab of abbey cheese.
22 km · about 25 min drive
museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
34 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
39 km · about 45 min drive
beach
Belgium's widest sandy beach, famous for land-yachting and bordering the wild Westhoek dunes near the French border.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
The medieval heart of Bruges, where the climbable Belfry tower looms over a square of stepped-gable guild houses.
59 km · about 70 min drive
April to October
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