Warneton, Belgium

Warneton (in Dutch "Waasten", in Picard "Varnetån" or "Warneuton") is a section of the Belgian municipality of Comines-Warneton in Wallonia in the province of Hainaut. It was a municipality of its own until the 1977 merger of Belgian municipalities.
It is immediately to the north of the French commune of Warneton, across the river Lys or Leie.
Etymology.
Farm (Saxon "thun", Germanic "*tûna", "enclosure") of Warin, a Saxon and Frankish anthroponym (Saxon settlement set up in the Merovingian era).
History.
Cut away from Ploegsteert in 1850, it was transferred from the province of West Flanders to the province of Hainaut, in 1963. Since that date its minority Dutch-speaking inhabitants have benefitted from language facilities.