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Place in Wallonia, Belgium
Hamme-Mille
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Coordinates: 50°46′48″N 04°43′10″E / 50.78000°N 4.71944°E / 50.78000; 4.71944
Country Belgium
Region Wallonia
Province Walloon Brabant
MunicipalityBeauvechain

Hamme-Mille is a district of the municipality of Beauvechain, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

The settlement existed at least from 1146. In 1235, Henry II, Duke of Brabant founded a Cistercian abbey for nuns, the Valduc Abbey, in Hamme. Today nothing remains of the abbey, which was dismantled and sold as rubble following the French Revolution. On its foundations a large country house was built in 1867 and designed by Gérard Van der Linden [fr]. In Mille there is also a well-preserved medieval chapel, dedicated to Saint Cornelius. It was built in 1460.

References

  1. Menne, Gilbert, ed. (2014). Le grand guide de Wallonie et de Bruxelles. Brussels: Racine. p. 115. ISBN 978-94-014-1418-0.

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