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Car park at the side of the road near the Grâve campsite.
(S/E) Cross Rue de l'Étang and follow the path that runs alongside the campsite. Cross a stream via a footbridge.
The path crosses young forests and then leads to Allée du Château du Givre. Follow it to the right for a good kilometre.
(1) At the junction with the old railway line, turn right towards Ruisseau du Perche.
(2) Just before the bridge over the Perche, turn left and follow the stream (yellow markings). At the forest path, turn left away from the stream, then turn right onto a path that crosses another forest road.
(3) Continue straight ahead on the path that leads closer to the stream.
(4) Turn right onto the Allée Forestière de la Fontaine Robin, cross the small wooden bridge and follow this lane uphill.
(5) After 300 metres, you will come to the old railway line, which you take to the left towards the village of La Magdelaine. Leave it on the right and, at the road, turn left to reach the hamlet.
(6) In this hamlet, there is a chapel dating from 1199, originally part of a leprosarium. Inside, carefully maintained by the villagers, is a polychrome statue of the Virgin Mary from the 15th century.
To return, take the municipal road.
(7) Turn right onto Allée de la Fontaine Robin and continue for about 150 metres.
(8) Turn left onto the path towards the old Maillardais railway station and join the Route Forestière de Carheil in Maillerais. Turn right and then immediately left onto Allée Forestière du Pharel.
(9) Before the bridge over the Perche, turn left and follow the stream until you reach the Route de la Maillardais, which you follow to the right until you reach the car park (S/E).
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