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Worth the climb up the hill. Small park at the top accesses the mill. Best example I have ever seen

The Montagne de Watten site is a viewpoint located in Watten, in the Nord department in France. It offers a panoramic view of the city and its surroundings.

The Watten mill was built in the 18th century on the site of a bastion. It has been restored and in the summer the blades turn as before.

On the hills are also the ruins of an abbey (private property) with a square Gothic tower. The esplanade in front of the abbey entrance offers a view of the gorge formed by the Aa (canal, railway) and the Forêt Domaniale d'Eperlecques.

This 22m high bunker protrudes like a mountain of concrete above the fôret d'Eperlecques. It was built as a launching pad to bombard London with V2 rockets. The 5m thick concrete capstone was gradually lifted with a jack system as construction progressed. He had to protect the workers from the bombardments. But on August 27, 1943, 185 "flying fortresses" launched in England dropped several tons of bombs on the bunker. Numerous deportees who were employed there died in the bombardment. The bunker was then enlarged to house a liquid oxygen plant.

The Mont de Watten is the westernmost extension of the West Flemish Hills. With its 72m it dominates the Aa valley and the Flemish plain. Turenne used the hill as a lookout post for the battle of Dunkirk (1658) and much later the German general Guderian, strategist of the Blitzkrieg, did the same (1940). The Watten mill was built in the 18th century on the site of a bastion. It has been restored and in the summer the blades turn again as before. On the hills are also the ruins of an abbey (privately owned) with a square Gothic tower. The esplanade in front of the entrance to the abbey offers a view of the gorge formed by the Aa (canal, railway) and the Forêt Domaniale d'Eperlecques.