Chaumont-Gistoux ( French pronunciation: [ʃomɔ̃ ʒistu] ; Walloon : Tchåmont-Djistou ) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant . On 1 January 2006 Chaumont-Gistoux had a total population of 10,926. The total area is 48.09 km which gives a population density of 227 inhabitants per km .
4-592: Bonlez is a village of and a district of the municipality of Chaumont-Gistoux , located in the province of Walloon Brabant , Belgium. The locality has been settled at least since the Bronze Age . The first written mention of the village dates from the Middle Ages . Bonlez Castle is located in Bonlez; the village church is also a historical building, dating in its current appearance largely from 1771, when it
8-540: The line and many exhibits from the war. Princess Claire of Belgium grew up in Chaumont-Gistoux. The Coombs family still resides there to this day, and the Princess, her husband Prince Laurent and their children are often seen in the municipality. Bonlez, Chaumont, Corroy-le-Grand, Dion-le-Mont, Dion-le-Val, Gistoux, Longueville and Vieusart or (Vieux-Sart). This Walloon Brabant location article
12-619: The village of Gistoux. It is a semi-rural municipality with several working farms, large areas given over to fields and forests, although there is a major industry of sand extraction , now mostly in decline. Due to this history there are now several haulage and construction firms based in the municipality. Chaumont-Gistoux is on the KW-line , a defensive line erected early in the Second World War , intended to prevent invasion from Nazi Germany . A small museum houses information about
16-458: Was rebuilt according to a design by Laurent-Benoît Dewez . Inside, it contains furnishings from the 15th to 17th centuries. This Belgium location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chaumont-Gistoux It was formed from the fusion, in 1977, of Dion-Valmont (itself a fusion in 1971 of Dion-le-Val and Dion-le-Mont), Bonlez , Corroy-le-Grand, Longueville and Chaumont-Gistoux. The administrative offices are now in
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