La Motte-au-Bois
La Motte-aux-Bois is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France. It was absorbed by Morbecque some time between 1790 and 1794.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: former commune in Nord, France
- Also known as: “De Walle” and “La Motte aux Bois”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Saint-Thomas-de-Cantorbery de La Motte-au-Bois and Château de la Motte-aux-Bois.
Église Saint-Thomas-de-Cantorbery de La Motte-au-Bois
Church
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Église Saint-Thomas-de-Cantorbery de La Motte-au-Bois is a church.
Château de la Motte-aux-Bois
Castle
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Château de la Motte-aux-Bois is a castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hazebrouck.
Hazebrouck
Town
Photo: MJJR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hazebrouck is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France. It was a small market town in Flanders until it became an important railway junction in the 1860s. Hazebrouck is situated 5 km northwest of La Motte-au-Bois.
La Motte-au-Bois
- Categories: village, commune of France, and locality
- Location: Morbecque, Arrondissement of Dunkirk, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.68302° or 50° 40′ 59″ northLongitude
2.57234° or 2° 34′ 20″ eastElevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
9F24MHMC+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 2218301323OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
Discover La Motte-au-Bois from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vlaams—“La Motte-au-Bois” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “De Walle”
- Dutch: “De Walle”
- Dutch: “La Motte-au-Bois”
- Esperanto: “De Walle”
- Esperanto: “La Motte-au-Bois”
- French: “De Walle”
- French: “La Motte aux Bois”
- French: “La Motte-au-Bois”
- German: “De Walle”
- Hungarian: “De Walle”
- Irish: “La Motte-au-Bois”
- Italian: “De Walle”
- Latvian: “De Walle”
- Lithuanian: “De Walle”
- Low German: “De Walle”
- Polish: “De Walle”
- Portuguese: “De Walle”
- Romanian: “De Walle”
- Spanish: “De Walle”
- Swedish: “De Walle”
- Swiss German: “De Walle”
- Turkish: “La Motte-au-Bois”
- Vlaams: “De Walle”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Le Parc and Sec Bois.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Terrain de Robert and Institut aéronautique Amaury de la Grange.
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