Strud
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Strud
| image_skyline = Strud - Village - JPG1.jpg
| image_caption = Strud with its medieval church
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Belgium}}
| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Wallonia}}
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = {{flagicon image|Blason_namur_prov.svg}} Namur
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| subdivision_type4 = Municipality
| subdivision_name4 = {{flagicon image|Blason_Gesves.svg}} Gesves
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Strud is a hamlet of the village of Haltinne, Wallonia, located in the municipality of Gesves, province of Namur, Belgium.
The village church dates from the 11th century, and has a tower from the 9th century (with a 17th-century spire). It was expanded in 1891 and renovated in 1931. About {{convert|1|km|miles}} south of the village centre lies a manor (manoir de Labas) known since 1343, subsequently destroyed and rebuilt during the 17th century.{{cite book |editor-last= Menne|editor-first= Gilbert|date= 2014|title= Le grand guide de Wallonie et de Bruxelles|location= Brussels|publisher= Racine|page= 485|isbn=978 94 014 1418 0}}
A Devonian lagerstätte is known from the area, containing fossils of fairy shrimp, notostracans{{cite journal |last1=Gueriau |first1=Pierre |last2=Rabet |first2=Nicolas |last3=Clément |first3=Gaël |last4=Lagebro |first4=Linda |last5=Vannier |first5=Jean |last6=Briggs |first6=Derek E.G. |last7=Charbonnier |first7=Sylvain |last8=Olive |first8=Sébastien |last9=Béthoux |first9=Olivier |title=A 365-Million-Year-Old Freshwater Community Reveals Morphological and Ecological Stasis in Branchiopod Crustaceans |journal=Current Biology |date=February 2016 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=383–390 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.039|doi-access=free }} and possible insects.{{cite journal |last1=Garrouste |first1=Romain |last2=Clément |first2=Gaël |last3=Nel |first3=Patricia |last4=Engel |first4=Michael S. |last5=Grandcolas |first5=Philippe |last6=D’Haese |first6=Cyrille |last7=Lagebro |first7=Linda |last8=Denayer |first8=Julien |last9=Gueriau |first9=Pierre |last10=Lafaite |first10=Patrick |last11=Olive |first11=Sébastien |last12=Prestianni |first12=Cyrille |last13=Nel |first13=André |title=A complete insect from the Late Devonian period |journal=Nature |date=2 August 2012 |volume=488 |issue=7409 |pages=82–85 |doi=10.1038/nature11281}}
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