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Grouches-Luchuel: car park on Rue du 8 Mai 1945 near the Town Hall
(S/E) Cross the Grouche (beautiful footbridge) to arrive opposite the school. Turn right and reach Rue de la Mairie. Cross it and follow the beautiful grassy path that runs alongside the river. Join a concrete track. Follow it on the left (you can also take the path opposite to stay by the river). Leave the track a little further on to follow the Grouche more closely and join a small road.
(1) Take the grassy path opposite (barrier) and reach Rue de l'Église (see practical information for alternative route). Follow it to the right. Stay on this street to reach the large forest house (there is often a herd of deer on the right). A little further on, you will reach a fork.
(2) Head straight ahead onto the grassy path and follow the fence (you can sometimes see a few wild boars behind the fence). Cross the Bois du Parc and you will reach a small road. Follow it to the right and you will reach the T-junction with the D200.
(3) Follow it to the right. Shortly before the crossroads, take the beautiful grassy path on the left (Ruelle du Bras de Fer). At the T-junction that follows, turn right to join the D 5. Follow it to the left, cross the stream and turn left into the first street (Rue du Château). It turns right and reaches a T-junction. Turn left onto Rue Raymond Dubois. At the next T-junction (the castle is very close on the left, but you can't see much), turn right. Just after the right-hand bend, turn left into the small lane (sometimes a little cluttered) and join the D5 (there is a welcoming café on the right, closed on Wednesdays).
(4) Follow it on the left. Ignore the first street on the right and take the second one towards the beautiful grassy square where the wedding tree stands. Head towards the foot of the tree and go down the square, keeping as far to the left as possible to reach Rue de la Couture, which you follow on the left. Just after No. 22, a small lane branches off to the right.
(5) Take this small lane. Cross the Grouche on a metal footbridge and you will reach a wider path. Follow it to the right and you will come to a tarmac road.
(6) Follow it straight ahead (slightly to the left). Very quickly, the tarmac disappears and you walk along a beautiful path near the river (you can hear it more than you can see it). You will reach a small road.
(7) Follow it for a few metres to the left before taking the path that branches off to the right and joins the D200. Follow the departmental road to the left (take care, but there aren't many cars!). You will reach a bend to the right.
(8) Leave the road and take the path opposite that enters La Cavée. This is theGR®®124, but it is not well marked in this area! In dry weather, it is a good, fairly wide stony path. After about 1 km, the wide path ends.
(9) Then turn right onto the ascending path (clear in September 2025, but the steep start on limestone ground can be slippery in wet weather). As soon as it reaches the woods, the path widens again and theGR®® andPR®® markings reappear (but they are very discreet and rare!). Continue in the same direction to cross the Bois de Watron. This path can be quite muddy in places and you may need to stray from it slightly. Eventually you will reach the edge of the woods.
(10) Continue along the wide path that leads to Pommera near the cemetery, then turn right to join the N25. Cross it carefully and follow Rue du Château d'Eau for about 100 metres until you reach the old railway line (barriers).
(11) Follow it to the right. Join the D24 at a place called La Grimpette. Continue straight ahead, still on the railway line.
(12) A little further on, leave theGR®® which branches off to the left towards Halloy and stay on the railway line.
Pass two field entrances on the left, then the path becomes more enclosed. After two dirt passages that climb the embankment on the right, you will finally reach an open barrier (you will see the two posts on either side of the path and there is a closed barrier on the left). Just after the gate, climb the embankment on the right (easy). Once at the top, take a few steps to the right and you will reach the edge of the woods.
(13) Then turn left to follow the edge of the woods. There isn't really a path, but it's a grassy area (popular with deer) where it's easy to walk. When you reach the end of the woods, join a good path that branches off to the left. Follow it to reach a small tarmac road.
(14) Follow it to the right, pass in front of the beautiful Beaurepaire farm and reach the N25. Cross it (again, be careful) and take the path opposite (a short climb) for about 700 m, looking out for the grassy path that branches off to the right.
(15) Follow this path. It turns left at a 90° angle and eventually descends to Grouches-Luchuel. Descend to the D5. Follow it to the right and quickly leave it to take the hairpin bend Rue du 8 Mai. It leads back to the car park via a pretty path on the right-hand side of the road, see practical information (S/E).
Visorando member
Easy 
Difficult 
Association / Club / Walk leader
Very difficult 
