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Park in the car park behind the post office.
(S/E) Head south and go up the Chemin de Croix Mesnil towards the forest (do not take the path behind the gardens).
(1) Turn left onto the first path before reaching the fields. Follow this path until you reach a small paved road. Then turn right onto this road, which climbs slightly.
(2) Almost at the top of the hill, turn left. Follow the path that runs alongside the field on your right. After crossing a sort of ravine, the path arrives at the D6. Cross this road and continue opposite on the path closest to the field on your right. This is the lime kiln path, which leads to a crossroads of several paths, forming a sort of square.
(3) Continue along the path marked in blue that starts from this crossroads almost opposite. To find it, on this sort of square, you need to go slightly to the left and then north. After about 100 metres, take the first path on the right. This path leads to the D14: follow it to the left for about 300 metres.
(4) In the bend, leave the D14 by taking the path that descends to the right. At the T-junction, turn left towards the Lieure and two small buildings belonging to the Saint-Paul farm, which can be seen further ahead on the left. Pass a pond, join the D132 and follow it to the left. Continue straight ahead, keeping left at each intersection.
(5) At the bottom of the descent, in a bend at the end of the football field that you can see below on the left, turn right towards a long house. The path to follow is hidden behind this house (marked by a blue line on a marker at the corner of the house).
(6) After about 500 metres, at the first crossroads, turn right onto the road going uphill. When you reach a road, turn left and head downhill towards a church. Then turn right onto the street opposite the church entrance.
(7) At the cross, take Chemin des Écoliers, which goes straight ahead while the road makes a hairpin bend. A small yellow sign indicates this road, which climbs up to the D6. There, take the road immediately on the left, without going onto the D6, following the blue markings and the signs for "Chemin des Écoliers". Ignore all the turnings on the left and, after about 1.5 km, at a place called L'Essart Mador (Chapelle Saint-Jean).
(8) Then continue left along the Chemin des Écoliers, which leads to the rear of the chapel. Go downhill to a crossroads.
(9) Turn left onto the path and go downhill towards Villaine. At the next crossroads, continue straight ahead towards La Fontaineresse (do not turn right towards Villaine). Follow this path, then the tarmac road that continues along it, until you reach a bridge over the Lieure. Note: there is a small wash house just across the bridge. Cross the river via the bridge and immediately turn left towards Lyons-la-Forêt via Rue du Bout de Bas.
(10) At the entrance to Lyons, take Rue de la Rouge Mare (leaving Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville on your right), then Rue de la République, which will take you to the house where Maurice Ravel composed and orchestrated some of his works. Rue d'Enfer will take you back to the central square of Lyons-la-Forêt, with its market hall and cafés. Turn left after the square and return to the post office and car park (S/E).
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