Travel Guide Ham-En-Artois

Ham would mean swamp. The village actually occupies a wet site: The Swamp-Pourri is a remarkable natural environment - an educational course has been set up. The village is mainly renowned for the remains of an abbey built in the th century by a lord of Lillers, the return of a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It was on the foundations of this ancient abbey that was rebuilt the current church, in 1663. Only the nave bears witness to this time and remains emblematic of the religious embrasement of the th century, as demonstrated by the collegiate of Lillers, which was also built under Winemar. At the limit of Ham-en-Artois, there is also the point of the farm of Malannoy, which became a farm, but whose remains of one of the twelve towers still indicate the presence of the old medieval fortress. The Malannoy Trail of 7 km from the church to the chapel of the White Woman will take you two hours during this campaign, which counts old villages like those of Bourecq and Amettes.