Chievres

Chievres is a Walloon municipality placed within the Belgian province of Hainaut. On January 1, 2006, Chivres had a total population of 6,198. The total location is 46.91 km² which offers a populace density of 132 population in step with km². Chievres Air Base is placed within the municipality. The municipality consists of the subsequent sub-municipalities: Chievres right, Grosage, Huissignies, Ladeuze, Tongre-Saint-Martin, and Tongre-Notre-Dame. In 1918 the town became introduced through the 5th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders from four years of navy career at some stage in the First World War.

The occasion turned into commemorated via the naming of one of the city's major streets as Rue Dudley Gordon after the battalion's Lieutenant-Colonel, the Lord Dudley Gordon, who changed into supplied with the key to the town of Chievres. In go back, a gift turned into made to the town of the flag below which the 5th Battalion had fought seeing that 1915. In this town heaps variety of people are go to each yr with his faimly . This metropolis is one of the fine town to visit for vacationer.