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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.
12 km · about 25 min drive
Wallonia, Belgium · Europe
Saint-Yvon works well as a base: 5 minutes from Bas-Warneton, 46km from De Panne Beach.
Saint-Yvon is a town located in Wallonia, Belgium. With a population of 0, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Saint-Yvon 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 Saint-Yvon to your route.
Ploegsteert Wood was a sector of the Western Front in Flanders in World War I, part of the Ypres Salient. It is located around the Belgian village of Ploegsteert, Wallonia.
Intense fighting took place as part of the Battle of Armentieres between German and French-British forces (including Royal Hampshire Regiment)Read more
between 13th October and 2nd November 1914. After fierce fighting in late 1914 and early 1915, Ploegsteert Wood became a quiet sector where no major action took place. Units were sent here to recuperate and retrain after tougher fighting elsewhere, and before returning to take part in more active operations. British Tommies referred to Ploegsteert Wood as "Plugstreet Wood". 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.
There are numerous Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemeteries and memorials around the wood, including the Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery (with 163 identified casualties) as well as the nearby Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) CWGC Cemetery and the Berks CWGC Cemetery Extension with the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing. The Ploegsteert Memorial commemorates more than 11,000 British and Empire servicemen who died during the First World War and have no known grave. It is one of several CWGC Memorials to the Missing along the Western Front. Those lost within the Ypres Salient without a known grave are commemorated at the Menin Gate and Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, while the missing of New Zealand and Newfoundland are honoured on separate memorials.
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Saint-Yvon is located in Wallonia, Belgium, Europe. The coordinates are 50.7433 latitude, 2.9099 longitude.
Saint-Yvon has a population of approximately 0 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.
12 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.
12 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 30 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.
21 km · about 25 min drive
museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Twin soaring pylons crown a WWI battlefield of preserved trenches and craters above the Douai plain.
42 km · about 50 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
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The medieval heart of Bruges, where the climbable Belfry tower looms over a square of stepped-gable guild houses.
56 km · about 65 min drive
April to October
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