Warneton, Belgium

Church of Saints Peter and Paul

Warneton (Dutch: Waasten; Picard: Varnetån/Warneuton) is a section of the Belgian municipality of Comines-Warneton in Wallonia in the province of Hainaut. It was a municipality of its own until the 1977 merger of Belgian municipalities.

It is immediately to the north of the French commune of Warneton, across the river Lys or Leie.

Etymology[]

1007 Uuarnasthun
1065 Uuarnestun
1104 Guarnestun
1168 Warnestun^[1]

Farm (Saxon thun, Germanic *tûna, "enclosure") of Warin, a Saxon and Frankish anthroponym (Saxon settlement set up in the Merovingian era).

History[]

Cut away from Ploegsteert in 1850, it was transferred from the province of West Flanders to the province of Hainaut, in 1963. Since that date its minority Dutch-speaking inhabitants have benefitted from language facilities.

References[]

^ d'Hoop, F.-H. (1870). Cartularium: Recueil des Chartes du Prieuré de Saint-Bertin, a Poperinghe, et de Ses Dépendances a Bas-Warneton et a Couckelaere Déposées aux Archives de l'État, a Gand. Bruges: mprimé Chez Vandecasteele-Werbouck. p. 20.

External links[]

Brief description of the village

Coordinates: 50°45′N 02°57′E / 50.750°N 2.950°E / 50.750; 2.950

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[1] 'Hoop, F.-H. (1870). Cartularium: Recueil des Chartes du Prieuré de Saint-Bertin, a Poperinghe, et de Ses Dépendances a Bas-Warneton et a Couckelaere Déposées aux Archives de l'État, a Gand. Bruges: mprimé Chez Vandecasteele-Werbouck. p. 20.

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