"The five villages of Lasnes through maps" Topic

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.

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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)

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

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.

That building was still there in 1906:

The current building is not a church.

Kind regards
Allan

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!