Route de découverte de Fayl-Billot

Fayl-Billot is a village of 1,300 inhabitants located in the Haute-Marne department. It is best known as the capital of basketry. There are many artisans practising this craft in the village. At the end of this walk, do not hesitate to take home a souvenir. This walk takes in the village’s main tourist and cultural attractions, such as the National School of Osier Cultivation and Basketry, Notre-Dame Church, as well as all the village’s wash houses and fountains.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 5.38 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 1h 45 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 61 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 63 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 355 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 297 m
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐ City: Fayl-Billot (52500)
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 47.781° / E 5.601975°
  • Accessible from the train station Gare de Charmoy-Fayl-Billot.
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 3220SB
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Description of the walk

Park in the car park at Place de la Mairie.

(S/E) With this on your right, turn left to go between the kiosk and a building. When you reach a crossroads, go down the path on the right to follow Rue Georges Darboy. At the junction, turn right to reach the entrance to the École Nationale d’Osiériculture et de Vannerie.

(1) Leave the school on your left, then keep left at the next junction to walk down Rue du Château. At the bend, continue along the small path on the left. When you rejoin the street a little further down, turn right to reach the first wash house.

(2) Continue along the street and, at the end, turn left down Rue du Vau. Cross the Ruisseau du Fayl and take the first right, Rue Reby. Walk to the fountain.

(3) Continue along the street and turn left onto Rue du Glaud, following it to the wash house.

(4) Return to the previous fountain via the same route.

(3) Continue straight ahead, turn left to cross the stream again and then turn left once more onto Rue de la Vieille Église. This street ends at a place called Chapelle Notre-Dame.

(5) Opposite the chapel, head up to the right and walk past the wash house. Ignore two junctions and follow Rue de la Perrière. Go down the first street on the right, called Rue du Pont. At the end of this street, you’ll reach the Lavoir du Cloutier.

(6) When you reach the wash house, turn left onto Rue Traversière. When you reach Grande Rue, follow it to the left again to reach the church and its square.

(7) Walk along the left-hand side of the square and go round the building. Return to Grande Rue, cross it, then take the path to the left of the Salle des fêtes de l’Oseraie. At the end, go up the street on the left to reach Rue des Pommeraies. Then turn right, then immediately left three times onto Rue de Bourgogne. At the next junction, continue to the right before turning left at the roundabout, then immediately right onto Rue de Franche-Comté. Take the second left, then turn right to reach the boundary between the houses and the countryside. Then turn sharply right to go down Chemin de Maizières. Cut across Rue du 8 Mai to reach a fountain and a cross.

(8) Head down the Rue Sainte-Anne opposite. At the end, turn left to go downhill, then cross the Place de Verdun. Keep left onto the Grande Rue, then turn left onto the Rue du Breuil. At the first junction, turn right (Chemin du Pré Taureau). At the end of this road, turn right onto Rue de la Haie de Montbraux to reach Rue de Vesoul.

(9) Turn right again and follow this street until you reach Place de la Barre, located at a right-hand bend. Follow the bend and turn left onto Rue Jean Brugnon, which leads back to the Lavoir du Cloutier.

(6) Leave the wash house on your right and take the second left (Rue du Cloutier). This street leads to the school.

(1) Once you reach the school, turn left to go straight to the car park (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 334 m - Car park at Place de la Mairie
  2. 1 : km 0.17 - alt. 332 m - National School of Osier Cultivation and Basketry
  3. 2 : km 0.38 - alt. 305 m - Washing house on Rue du Château
  4. 3 : km 0.73 - alt. 298 m - Fountain, near the stream - Fayl (cours d'eau) - Affluent du Salon
  5. 4 : km 0.88 - alt. 304 m - Washing house on Rue du Glaud
  6. 5 : km 1.46 - alt. 304 m - Wash house and - Chapelle Notre-Dame (Fayl-Billot)
  7. 6 : km 1.87 - alt. 324 m - Cloutier wash house
  8. 7 : km 2.14 - alt. 336 m - Église Notre-Dame-en-Sa Nativité (Fayl-Billot)
  9. 8 : km 3.53 - alt. 340 m - Fountain on Rue Ste-Anne
  10. 9 : km 4.63 - alt. 341 m - Rue de Vesoul
  11. S/E : km 5.38 - alt. 334 m - Car park at Place de la Mairie

Notes

Toilets available at the starting point.

Bakery available to the left of (9).

Worth a visit

Washing places at (2), (4), (5) and (6).

Notre-Dame Chapel (5).

Fountains at (2), (3) and (8).

Church of Our Lady of the Nativity (7).

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