Wimereux (French: [vim(ə)ʁø]; West Flemish: Wimeruwe) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France[3] 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the banks of the small river Wimereux.

The river Slack forms the northern border of the commune and the English Channel the western.

In March 1899 the first radio link between France and England was established at Wimereux by Guglielmo Marconi.

[4] Lady Hadfield set up and ran a Red Cross hospital there.

[6] In 1916, Solomon J Solomon set up a Royal Engineers establishment, the Special Works Park, in a disused feldspar factory and developed new military camouflage techniques and equipment for the British Army.