The Great War
Historic sites
The farm sits in the middle of the 1914-1918 front. Cemeteries, memorials and museums are literally around the corner, listed here town by town.
Langemark-Poelkapelle
Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof
German military cemetery and the peace memorial
The Brooding Soldier
Canadian memorial in Sint-Juliaan, walking distance from the B&B
Guynemer monument & Guynemerpaviljoen ↗
Memorial to the French pilot Georges Guynemer, with visitor pavilion
Poelcapelle British Cemetery
And the other British cemeteries in the municipality
Harry Patch Memorial Stone & Welsh National Memorial Park
Memorial stone to the last British WWI veteran and the Welsh memorial park
Dochy Farm New British Cemetery
Private museum within walking distance, visits by online appointment only
Guided battlefield day tours
Zonnebeke (3 km)
Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 & Kasteelpark
Museum on the Battle of Passchendaele, in the castle park
Tyne Cot Cemetery
The largest British military cemetery on the continent
Polygon Wood & Buttes New British Cemetery
Scottish Memorial
Crest Farm Canadian Memorial
New Zealand Division memorial
Café, snack bar and private museum with the Brothers in Arms memorial
Ypres (8 km)
Historic town centre
Cloth Hall, cathedral, belfry and ramparts
Last Post
Every evening at 8 pm under the Menin Gate
Essex Farm Cemetery & John McCrae site
Where the poem 'In Flanders Fields' was written
De Palingbeek
Provincial estate with the memorial site of the 1917 mine battle
Poperinge
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery ↗
Cemetery with visitor centre
The 1915 'Every Man's Club', still a guesthouse today
Diksmuide
In the Yser Tower
De Dodengang
Preserved Belgian trenches along the Yser
Heuvelland
Commandobunker Kemmel
Bayernwald
Restored German trenches
At check-in you receive our WWI pass: group rates at ten or so museums in the region, including the In Flanders Fields Museum, the Passchendaele Museum, Hooge Crater, Talbot House and Bayernwald.