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Wormhout (; before 1975: ''Wormhoudt''; vls, Wormout) is a Wormhout Tourist Office
See "Origine et histoire" under "Renseignements". Neighbouring towns and villages : * Ledringhem to the south-west, separated by river Peene Becque * Esquelbecq
* Old wind mill
* Jeanne Devos museum
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commune
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in the Nord department in northern France
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. Several people in Wormhout still speak West Flemish
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, a local dialect of Dutch
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and the traditional language of the region, while French-speakers form a majority, due to centuries of French political and cultural influence.
The town's name is of Germanic origin, meaning "Wormwood."See "Origine et histoire" under "Renseignements". Neighbouring towns and villages : * Ledringhem to the south-west, separated by river Peene Becque * Esquelbecq
Population
Heraldry
Sights
* Old wind mill
* Jeanne Devos museum
* Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery
Wormhout cemetery (french: Cimetière de Wormhout; nl, Begraafplaats van Wormhout) is a communal cemetery of Wormhout in the French department Nord. The site is located 700 metres north of the centre (municipal hall) at the Cours N4 du Cimetière ...
Education
Wormhout has a number of school providing education structures for all of the pupils around the town : école du bocage, école Roger Salengro, école Saint-Joseph, collège du Houtland, école Jean Moulin, collège Notre-Dame, lycée de l'Yser.Twinnage
Wormhout is twinned with the resort town of Llandudno, Conwy, Wales.See also
*Wormhoudt massacre
The Wormhoudt massacre (or Wormhout massacre) was the mass murder of 81 British and French POWs by Waffen-SS soldiers from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during the Battle of France in May 1940.
Fighting
As part of the Brit ...
*Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Nord (French department)
French Flanders
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