Flines-lez-Raches

Flines Abbey (French: Abbaye de Flines; also L'Honneur Notre-Dame de Flines) was a Cistercian nunnery in Flines-lez-Raches near Douai, in the Nord department of France. It was founded in about 1234 by Countess Margaret of Flanders, and served as the burial place not only of Margaret in 1278 but of Margaret's husband William II of Dampierre (body transferred to Saint-Dizier in 1257) and their son Guy, Count of Flanders (1304), as well as of Guy's wives Matilda of Béthune (1263) and Isabelle of Luxembourg (1298).The abbey owned farms in Faumont, Nomain, Coutiches, Cantin, Lambersart and Howardries (Belgium). It was destroyed in the French Revolution; the last remains disappeared in the middle of the 19th century.

Anhiers is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Coutiches (French pronunciation: [kutiʃ]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Lallaing (French pronunciation: [lalɛ̃]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Anchin Abbey was a Benedictine monastery founded in 1079 in the commune of Pecquencourt in what is now the Nord department of France.

Râches (French pronunciation: [ʁaʃ]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Faumont (French pronunciation: [fomɔ̃]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Auchy-lez-Orchies (French pronunciation: [oʃi lez‿ɔʁʃi], literally Auchy near Orchies) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Pecquencourt (French pronunciation: [pɛkɑ̃kuʁ]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

The Château de Montmorency is a former castle in the commune of Montigny-en-Ostrevent in the Nord département of France. Today, it comprises a farm, a restaurant and an equestrian centre.

Montigny-en-Ostrevent is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Bouvignies (French pronunciation: [buviɲi]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.