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Wormhout (; before 1975: ''Wormhoudt''; vls, Wormout) is a commune in the Nord department in northern Wormhout Tourist Office
See "Origine et histoire" under "Renseignements". Neighbouring towns and villages : *
* Old wind mill
* Jeanne Devos museum
* Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...
. Several people in Wormhout still speak West Flemish
West Flemish (''West-Vlams'' or ''West-Vloams'' or ''Vlaemsch'' (in French Flanders, French-Flanders), nl, West-Vlaams, french: link=no, flamand occidental) is a collection of Dutch dialects spoken in western Belgium and the neighbouring areas ...
, a local dialect of Dutch 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
Ledringhem ( vls, Ledringem) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It is situated also in the ancient territory of the County of Flanders, in the '' Houtland'' (or ''woodland'', with the cities of Cassel and Hazebrouck) in the ...
to the south-west, separated by river Peene Becque
* Esquelbecq
Population
Heraldry
Sights
* Old wind mill
* Jeanne Devos museum
* Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery
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 ofLlandudno
Llandudno (, ) is a seaside resort, town and community (Wales), community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. In the 2011 UK census, the community – which includes Gogarth, Pe ...
, Conwy, Wales.
See also
* Wormhoudt massacre *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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