Wimereux

Sister cities

• Schmallenberg
• Herne Bay

History

In March 1899 the first radio link between France and England was established at Wimereux by Guglielmo Marconi. During the First World War a number of hospitals were created at Wimereux: * The Women's Hospital Corps (WHC), founded by Flora Murray and Louisa Garratt Anderson, opened its second hospital at Chateau Mauricien in Wimereux. WHC was the first women's hospital to be recognised by the British Army. * Lady Hadfield set up and ran the 'Anglo-American' Red Cross hospital in Wimereux under the Anglo-French Hospitals committee of the British Red Cross; the Matron was Mrs De Winton. * The 'Australian Hospital' was on the sea front. Colonel Eames was the Commanding Officer, and the Matron was Miss Ida Greaves; it had an x-ray department and a high number of ambulances - about thirty.

Most-observed species

• Common Pipistrelle

  Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) · Mammalia
  2,245
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,768
• Herring Gull

  Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 · Aves
  1,663
• Common Chiffchaff

  Phylloscopus collybita (Vieillot, 1817) · Aves
  1,304
• Great Cormorant/European Shag

  Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,266
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,251
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,244
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,236

Most recent

• M 3.7 — 2015-05-22
  3 km SSE of Ramsgate, United Kingdom
• M 3.5 — 2009-03-03
  1 km ENE of Hawkinge, United Kingdom
• M 2.7 — 2008-11-26
  France
• M 4.6 — 2007-04-28
  1 km WNW of Lympne, United Kingdom
• M 2.6 — 2007-03-02
  46 km NE of Broadstairs, United Kingdom
• M 3.1 — 2001-07-02
  3 km NNE of Oostduinkerke, Belgium