The Chapelle and Moulin du Prat circular in Mordreuc

Start from the car park at the mill in Mordreuc.

(S/E) With the car park behind you, turn right towards the west to reach the slipway, then follow the banks of the Rance. Continue to the Quincoubre headland, which offers a fine view of the Moulin du Prat.

(1) Continue to the right along the downhill path.

(2) At the junction, turn right.

(3) At the T-junction, turn left. Continue straight on until you reach a junction near the D29.

(4) Turn right and climb the slope. You will come out onto a road; follow it to the right until you reach the hamlet of La Ville Hervy.

(5) Take the path on the left.

(6) At the junction, continue straight on to arrive directly opposite the Moulin du Prat.

(7) Retrace your steps.

(6) At the junction you passed shortly before, turn left to head down towards the mill. Then head towards the mill on the left (open to visitors).

(8) Turn back and continue eastwards along a path beside the reservoir.

(3) At a junction you passed earlier, turn left and follow the path in the opposite direction to the way you came.

(2) At the next junction, turn right and climb the slope.

(9) Join a road and follow it to the left. After about 300 metres, turn left.

(10) At the T-junction, turn right onto Chemin de la Mare du Doué and pass the ruins of a chapel. At the three-way junction, turn left.

(11) Then take the first road on the right, Chemin de la Longueraie. Continue along a path that soon veers left. At a three-way junction, turn left again. You will arrive at the crossroads by the monument to Émile Bouétard, a Second World War hero and native of Pleudihen-sur-Rance.

(12) Follow the road to the left for 150 metres. At the bend, follow the tree-lined sunken path to the left. Ignore a path on the right, turn left and, at the next junction, take the path on the right. Continue straight on until you reach a road. Turn right onto it and follow it to the hamlet of La Ville Piron.

(13) Cross the road and take the path opposite. At the road, turn left to return to Mordreuc. At the roundabout, turn right to return to the starting point (S/E).

The Chapel of Sainte Honorine
The village of the Mordreuc Chapel owes its name to its proximity to the port of Mordreuc and to this chapel dedicated to Saint Honorine, patron saint of boatmen. It forms part of the Bois-Piedrat estate. Since the late^{19th century}, the name has changed over the years to become, incorrectly, Sainte Ouine.

The Prat Mill (8)
This mill has been reconstructed, along with its outbuildings and its dyke, to help us understand how tide mills work. This mill, whose existence is attested to in the^16th century, belonged to the lords of La Bellière. It operated until the First World War, when competition from motorised mills led to its ruin.

The old tidal mill at Mordreuc (1898) with its dyke and pond. (S/E)
The masonry dyke connecting it to the slipway was not built until 1966 (when the Rance Dam was constructed); previously, the mill was connected to the mainland only by a simple path that was submerged at high tide.

The Bouvet Manor (S/E): private
Residence of the Bouvet family, from whom the Bouvet de Lozier and Bouvet de Précourt families descend. Among the descendants are Guy Bouvet’s grandson, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, a navigator and explorer who discoveredBouvet Island in 1739, and the son of Joseph Bouvet de Précourt, François, who was an Admiral in the Navy around 1793. See also this link.