Route de Tertre Guy in Mesnil-Roc'h and Saint-Pierre-de-Plesguen

Saint-Pierre-de-Plesguen borders the Mesnil forest to the south-east. The route is very wooded and lined with a few picturesque hamlets where you can see some old stone houses weathered by time, in varying states of repair.

A magnificent bread oven can be seen just off the route at a place called La Planche, at the first house on the right.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 8.37 mi
  • ◔
    Average duration: 4h 00 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Moderate

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 138 ft
  • ↘
    Descent: - 144 ft

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    Highest point: 272 ft
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 161 ft

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Description of the walk

Parking available: see practical information

Yellow markings

(S/E) From the town hall car park, go around the building on the right and take the Passage du Chanvril. At the Place de la Mairie, take the Ruelle de l'Église opposite to the Place du Tertre, turn right and continue for about 50 metres.

(1) Turn left into an alleyway that crosses a housing estate.

(2) When you reach the social services building, a wooden structure, turn left and take the path on the right towards the pond. It is lined with fitness trail stations.

(3) Go around the Étang de la Vallée pond on the left.

(4) At the end of the circular route, turn left and continue on the path, which will turn left after about 300 metres. You will reach the hamlet of La Morvonnais.

(5) Go straight through this hamlet, leaving a road on your right. At the end of the hamlet, take the path on the right for about 500 metres.

(6) Turn left onto the path. Follow it straight ahead through the woods, crossing an intersection, until you reach Rocher Marie.

(7) Cross the road and continue straight ahead. Turn right in front of the houses, then follow a grassy path downhill for about 50 metres on the left. The path branches off to the right and, after a stretch through the woods, takes a gravel path on the right that runs alongside a forest on the left. The path climbs and leads to a crossroads. Turn left and continue to a fork in the road.

(8) Turn right onto the road to Tertre Guy, where the road turns sharply left. It continues along a wooded dirt track. At the edge of the woods, the stony path veers right, almost due south. After 500 metres, the path splits in two.

End of yellow markings

(9) Take the path on the left towards the hamlet of La Ville ès Liez, leave it on your left and continue to the road. Follow it to the right and take the grassy path on the right which leads to an intersection with the D10.

(10) Take it to the right and pass Les Renardières, staying on the road.

Return to the yellow markings

(11) At the exit of the hamlet, after the bridge, take the path on the right at the wayside cross. The path quickly turns left. Stay on the path until you reach a road.

(12) Turn right, then take the path on the left that enters the woods. Find the path you took on the way there and take it to the left, heading south-west towards the start.

(6) At the intersection you passed on the way there, take the track on the left and then immediately take the one on the right. Continue until you reach the road.

(13) Take the road on the left for about 100 metres to admire the old bread oven on the right at the first house. Then turn around.

(13) Continue straight ahead. At La Morvonnais, turn left.

(5) Take the same route back to the pond.

(4) Keep left and continue to Rue Joseph Alanic. Take the street on the right at the crossroads until you reach the junction.

(2) Take the same route back to return to the starting point (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : mi 0 - alt. 272 ft - Town hall
  2. 1 : mi 0.11 - alt. 266 ft - Alleyway
  3. 2 : mi 0.21 - alt. 226 ft - Community centre
  4. 3 : mi 0.38 - alt. 210 ft - Pond
  5. 4 : mi 0.63 - alt. 210 ft - End of the circular pond loop
  6. 5 : mi 1.05 - alt. 194 ft - La Morvonnais
  7. 6 : mi 1.38 - alt. 220 ft - Crossroads
  8. 7 : mi 2.37 - alt. 220 ft - Le Rocher Marie
  9. 8 : mi 2.98 - alt. 187 ft - Carrefour du Tertre Guy
  10. 9 : mi 4.11 - alt. 167 ft - Criss-crossing paths
  11. 10 : mi 5 - alt. 190 ft - D10
  12. 11 : mi 5.49 - alt. 174 ft - Waymark
  13. 12 : mi 6.24 - alt. 194 ft - Route
  14. 13 : mi 7.21 - alt. 210 ft - Road to La Planche
  15. S/E : mi 8.37 - alt. 272 ft - Town hall

Notes

Car parks

Place Ange Denis: 48.446501798227395, -1.91298596613265.
Rue de l'Égalité: 48.446333938316776, -1.910898903142071.
Lotissement de la Vallée: 48.448645867899224, -1.9129597165199366.
Toilets next to the town hall.

Route in the forest, mostly dirt. Over long distances, the terrain can be heavy with numerous puddles during the wet season.

Worth a visit

The Church of Saint-Pierre - Saint-Firmin
Dating fromthe 15th and16th centuries. According to legend, the church was built in 1212 by Pierre de Dreux, Duke of Brittany. Facing battle, he vowed to build a church should he be victorious. To choose the site for the building, he had two oxen harnessed to a heavy cart and decided that the church would be built where the oxen stopped.

Le Tertre Guy
Le Tertre Guy was once a major estate. In the17th century, the estate comprised a manor house, a dovecote, the Chapel of Saint-François, and the watermills at Le Tertre Guy and Le Gué Briand. The chapel, founded in 1639, was destroyed by fire in 1786 and was never rebuilt. The dovecote has disappeared. The watermill, which was still in operation in 1833, has been destroyed. The manor house, now completely dilapidated, retains only a few traces of the17th century.

The Valley Ponds
Here you’ll find aquatic plants (irises, reeds, rushes…), numerous insects and amphibians. In this natural area, you can go fishing (if you have a licence) and have a picnic. You’ll also see Ouessant black-headed sheep.

Bread oven
At a place called La Planche, just past the signpost (13)

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