Wez-Velvain

Wez-Velvain (Picard: Wés'-Vélvin) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Brunehaut, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

Wez-Velvain is made of two hamlets named after the Latin word vallis, "a valley", and fel vain, meaning "a fertile plain".

In 979, Godefroid le Captif ceded the farms of Neufville to the chapter of the St. Peter abbey in Ghent.

The fortress was besieged by the Burgundians in 1478 and in 1521 by Baron de Ligne on Charles Quint's behalf.

The church of Wez-Velvain, built in 1775, was one of the few in the region that was not destroyed by the Germans during the World War I. Wé is a Walloon word meaning « ford ».