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Parking: Grand Place, near the Town Hall of Solre-le-Château.
(S/E) With your back to Rue des Liesses, take the picturesque Ruelle aux Souris opposite (between the pharmacy and the notary's office; a wooden sign indicates the name of the route). At the T-junction, turn left. At the end, turn right and follow the Riamé.
(1) At the end of the path, follow the D963 to the left towards Jeumont. At the roundabout, take thethird left, Chemin de Groez, and walk along a sports field on your left.
(2) At the Roquette intersection (remarkable view of five typical bell towers, from left to right: Épinoy, Clairfayts, Solre-le-Château, Sars-Poteries, Lez-Fontaine), turn right onto Chemin de Groez. At the next fork, continue straight ahead. Cross the Écrevisse stream.
(3) Just after the bridge, turn left and enter the Groez woods (private property, do not stray from the marked path). At the fork, go right. At the next crossroads, continue straight ahead.
(4) At the edge of the woods, continue straight ahead through the bocage. Ignore a path on the left (elevation 195) and continue north-west. Pass in front of an oratory and reach the hamlet of Le Warou via Rue du Calvaire.
(5) Turn sharply left onto Rue des Groseillers. Before the ford, climb left onto Chemin du Moulin de Reumont. At the fork, turn right, still on Chemin du Moulin de Reumont.
(6) At the next fork, turn right onto the path and walk for over 1 km through the Bois de Solre, ignoring all the paths on the left. Cross the Solre via the footbridge, cross a path and continue straight ahead to quickly reach the Moulin de Reumont.
(7) Continue to the left and immediately leave a path and the mill outbuildings on your left. Further on, ignore a path on the right and then one on the left.
(8) At the next intersection, turn left onto a path. Head south to the D27. Follow this road to the left and take the departmental road on the left for 180 metres, then turn right down Rue du Calvaire. Takethe first right. At La Rue Haute (calvary), cross the road to find the Avesnois Greenway directly opposite.
(9) Follow the Voie Verte to the left for about 300 metres.
(10) Just before the water treatment plant, turn right onto Rue du Général de Gaulle and walk up to the church of Lez-Fontaine (16th century). Cross the village, leaving Rue Léon Peron on your right, then Rue Jeannette. At the next crossroads, turn left towards the square.
(11) On leaving the village, after the kiosk, turn left onto Rue de la Croix. At the end, make the first turn left then right onto Chemin Vert. Continue straight ahead (east). At the end, continue along the D27 for about 150 metres.
(12) Join the Voie Verte de l'Avesnois and turn right. At the junction with the D963, follow this road to the left (Avenue du Général de Gaulle) to the Chapelle Notre Dame de Walcourt. Then follow the Grand Rue to return to the starting point (S/E).
A pleasant route with a few highlights, such as the meanders of the Ecrevisse, the beautiful villages of Solrinnes and Lez Fontaine, the bocage and, above all, the magnificent Moulin de Reumont. The trails and paths were soggy after the heavy rains, especially in the Bois de Groez and near the Moulin de Reumont, but still passable if you chose your route carefully. E few minor comments regarding the description at (2): it is not really a crossroads, there is a path that descends to the left, Rue de Clarge, and a vague trail, still on the left, that leads to a meadow. In the Bois de Groez, there are not one but two crossroads (nothing serious, just follow the markings). At Moulin de Reumont (7), we searched in vain for the houses on the left. These are the mill's outbuildings. Simply follow the road that climbs up and leaves the valley. A suggestion: at (8), the description invites you to turn left onto the path. I suggest naming this path "cestfaitcestfaitcestfait" (it's done, it's done, it's done). Let me explain: when we came to a large puddle, to my great surprise, my wife rushed straight ahead, spread her arms like a tightrope walker and accompanied each of her three steps with "it's done, it's done, it's done" 
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