Tag:historic=lavoir

A lavoir is a public place for washing laundry manually, i.e. by hand. Many of the disused ones are part of the heritage of a town or village and have been restored to teach visitors about this laboursome way of dealing with laundry.

How to map

Add a node or draw the area of the washing place and add historic=lavoir. Depending on the circumstances, you might need to add a building=* tag.

There might also be tourism=information boards nearby which would be useful to map.

Many wash houses are recorded on Wikimedia (Category:Wash houses), so it might be worth checking there and adding the wikimedia_commons=* for the wash house/ lavoir.

Gallery

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  Lavoir de Calleville, Charluber, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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  à Noailhac (Corrèze), Marianne Casamance, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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  Old wash houses in Tigeaux, Davric, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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  Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

See also

• amenity=lavoir for still in use places
• amenity=washing_machine for self-service machines
• shop=laundry for a place that offers the service or self-service of washing your clothes with washing machines

Potential mapping mistakes

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More details at taginfo

• amenity=lavoir ‒ It is misleading to map disused, historic amenities as amenities. Consider verifying them, especially when the description or the name contains variations of "ancient".

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
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