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Departure from Rond de Battenberg in Senonches - Parking available along Avenue des Évés.
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(S/E) With your back to the car park, follow the bank of the Étang Albert Rémy pond to the left. Pass in front of the Évés wash house and continue between the edge of the pond and the stream that flows out of the wash house. Cross the weir and watch the streams come together before passing under the houses on Rue de Launay. Continue until you reach the Boulodrome hedge.
(1) At the Boulodrome hedge, take the path along the stream on the left. Follow it to the Rue des Sormes wash house. Turn left into this street. Walk up to Rue de Pontgouin. Follow it to the right until you reach the crossroads near the Centre équestre de la Hutte. Turn right and walk down the path. Pass by the Hutte spring. Go up to the Étang de Badouleau dyke at the entrance to the holiday village.
(2) The route continues opposite, passing between the fences. You will arrive at a large forest crossroads. Cross the metal footbridge called "Le pont noir" (the black bridge). Cross the stream that feeds the pond. The route now follows its valley. Turn right immediately and climb the path, which becomes a track, leading to Rond de l'Aitre (actually Delaître Préfet d'Eure-et-Loir under NapoleonI).
(3) Carefully cross the D 941 to take the stone-paved lane opposite. Walk about 50 metres and turn left onto a winding path. Continue to the corner of plot no. 194, which is undergoing regeneration.
(4) Turn right onto the perpendicular path. Continue straight ahead. Reach the stream that feeds the Étang de Badouleau and cross it via a footbridge with a railing. Continue for another 300 metres or so. As you approach the D25, turn right onto a path that leads to the Rond de la Hache. (Leave the yellow markings).
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(5) Carefully cross the D25 and follow the D140 opposite towards Manou. Cross the old railway bridge. Continue to Rond de la Sablonnière.
(6) Continue straight ahead on the forest path. Shortly before the descent, take a steep path on the right, at the entrance to a track that leads to Étang Loiseau (private). Walk to the dyke.
(7) Take the path on the right that runs along the fence. It reaches a wide lane. Cross it and continue on the path along the factory fence. Cross the old railway line (take care on the descent) and join the D 25. Cross the road carefully and continue straight ahead on the path behind the housing estate. You will come to a crossroads.
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(8) Continue straight ahead and arrive at the Orée du Bois sensory trail. (It is advisable to walk around it - explanatory panels). Exit near the picnic tables, cross the car park, and arrive at Rue du Général de Gaulle.
(9) Cross the street at the pedestrian crossing and follow it to the left until you reach the Rond-point de la Pyramide, where there is a column with a small statue of Napoleon.
(10) Do not cross the roundabout, but take the street on the right and follow the beginning of Avenue de Badouleau. Cross it carefully and follow the path that slips between the houses on the left, cuts across Rue de la Fontaine du Chemin and leads to Square du Petit Bossard. This very damp place was, not so long ago, nothing more than a marsh. It is the convergence point of streams coming from the western part of the forest and the source of several springs. All this water flows underground through Avenue Poucin and Avenue des Evés, emptying into Lac Arthur Rémy, which was created in the 1960s.
Cross the square via the central path and head towards Rond de Battenberg (S/E).
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