"The five villages of Lasnes through maps" Topic
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| Allan F Mountford | 10 Sep 2024 8:34 a.m. PST |
I came across this whilst looking for images of villages in and around the Waterloo battlefield. It is a very entertaining gallop through the historical map record of Couture-Saint-Germain, Lasne, Maransart, Ohain and Plancenoit. link |
 deadhead  | 10 Sep 2024 11:24 a.m. PST |
What a terrific find. I have just gone through the whole thing and am fascinated by mention of a Chapelle de Piray, just east of Frischermont. This could explain the narrow steeple seen in images of "The Hamlet of Smohain", How the heck did you find something this obscure? It is invaluable to those daft enough to be trying to create an accurate model of the battlefield (as it shows the least well documented) |
| Allan F Mountford | 11 Sep 2024 1:09 a.m. PST |
I was looking through cadastral maps of the same area on the website kbr.be when I came across it.
I still cannot find a church at Smohain, but believe I now have some clues.
Kind regards
Allan |
| Prince of Essling | 11 Sep 2024 1:29 a.m. PST |
From the Craan map my educated guess is that the church is the building surrounded by what looks like a hedge, at the T junction that leads to Frischermont. |
| Allan F Mountford | 11 Sep 2024 6:25 a.m. PST |
That building was still there in 1906:
The current building is not a church. Kind regards
Allan |
| Captain Siborne | 11 Sep 2024 10:46 p.m. PST |
Dear All, I wanted to say thank you again for these invaluable contributions. The collective brain of TMP is terrific. I can't seem to add new comments to the other threads, but thank you very much! |
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