Route from Coët Letune to Cléguer

Start: the village of Cléguer, Saint-Gérand Church. Start sign to the left of the porch. Car park nearby.

(S/E) Turn left after the church porch and the start sign. Cross Louis Le Couriaud Square and turn left. Turn right into Rue des Pins until you reach Allée du Bois.

(1) Turn left, then right to enter the Bois de Ker René. Carry on straight ahead, then turn right onto the path running alongside the embankment and the housing estates. Continue to the left, then to the right, and go straight on through the housing estate until you reach Rue Anne de Bretagne.

(2) Turn right onto the street. At the junction, follow Rue des Étangs (left) then Rue du Doued (left).

(3) At the roundabout, after the wash house, carry on straight ahead along the protected path, then turn right onto the footpath. Follow the stream, ignoring the paths on the right, until you reach the Pont Person car park.

(4) Turn left before Pont Person and cross over the footbridges. Continue straight on along the path that climbs towards the village of Kernaud.

(5) At the road, turn left, then right onto the path that leads to Bas Pont-Scorff via the path heading towards Rue de Golménic.

(6) At the junction, turn left to explore Bas Pont-Scorff (section not marked in yellow). Walk down to the chapel. Go round it on the left to visit it, then cross over and head down Rue du Pont Romain opposite until you reach the Scorff. Before the bridge, turn right before the Malterie and follow the Scorff. Head up to the right before the Pont Neuf, then left onto Rue des Moulins.

(7) Turn right, then left before the chapel to head back up towards Golmenic and rejoin the path at the end of Rue de Golménic on the way out of Bas Pont-Scorff.

(6) At the junction, go straight on into the sunken lane, pass through the village of Poulmorvan, then cross the road (take care). Opposite, then slightly to your right, take the path which narrows and descends towards the site of the Moulin de Saint-Yves.

(8) Turn right, following the spillway, then turn left after the bend to take the sunken lane. Before Pont Person, cross the footbridge and follow the path which climbs to the left. Walk along the fence on the left, then head back down the steep path to the left. Turn right along the embankment and join the path running parallel to the Scorff through the meadows of Coët Letune.

(9) Continue along the wetland. At the Kereven pumping station, turn right and carry on along the edge of the woodland (straight on, then right) until you reach the road. Turn left, then take the second left after the bend. Cross over and continue straight ahead along the housing estate. Turn right at Kerhello to reach Saint-Gérand Church (S/E).

This route is organised by Lorient Agglomération

This route is included in the Morbihan Departmental Plan for Walking and Hiking Routes and has been accredited by the French Hiking Federation. You can follow the yellow signposts. There is an information board with a map and details of heritage sites at the start.

- Saint-Gérand Church: rebuilt in 1888, with a neoclassical bell tower and porch, and a^12th-century Romanesque nave.
- Lavoir du Bourg: late^19th century.
- Pont Person: a single-arch bridge dating from the late^19th century.
- Le Bas Pont-Scorff: Notre-Dame de Bonne Nouvelle Chapel (^13th–19th centuries), banks of the Scorff; the first crossing point over the Scorff from the sea, dating from Roman times until 1822; St-Jean Bridge (^16th century); Malterie (^19th-century brewery); Pont Neuf (1851).
- The Saint-Yves mill: a grain mill and weir dating from 1669, converted into a brewery in the late^19th century.
- Coët Létune (meaning ‘the goblin’s wood’ in Breton): a Natura 2000 site and the Kereven drinking-water pumping station,
which has supplied Lorient since 1911 and the surrounding towns since 1957.