Between land and sea in Kerlouan

Park in the car park at Kerlouan Town Hall.

(S/E) With your back to the car park, cross the main road at the pedestrian crossing and head towards the Sainte-Anne Chapel, which served as the parish church for three hundred years.

Blue signposting

Go round the chapel on the left, turn left into Rue du Commandant Toul, then right into Rue Sainte-Anne. When the road turns at a right angle, continue along a path that leads to the hamlet of Kerroual.

(1) On leaving the hamlet, turn right onto the path between the fields leading towards the water tower. This path turns left, then right, and left again to go round the water tower: a viewpoint over the countryside and the coast. Continue due west to cross a road at the hamlet of Kerisquillien.

(2) Walk about a hundred metres along the road and turn right onto a new path which leads to a wetland area and the Étang de la Digue (information boards explaining how the sluice gate works, and detailing the local flora and fauna).

(3) Continue to the right along a small road, then turn left to cross a small car park and climb up the dune.

GR34 marked in white and red + blue markings

(4) Turn right, walk along Nodéven Beach, pass a small car park and continue along the seafront on the path adapted for people with reduced mobility. Walk round Ménéham (view of the famous guardhouse nestled between two imposing granite boulders) and arrive at the Pors Doun sea wall.

(5) Continue overlooking the large Ménéham Beach, pass a small car park reserved for harbour users, then reach a larger car park with an information board. Continue for a good hundred metres until you reach a signpost.

Blue markings

(6) Leave the coast and the^GR®34and head for Impasse du Phare, signposted as a no-entry road except for residents. Continue along this small road which passes through the hamlet of Kerzenval (with a view to the left of Pontusval Lighthouse and Saint-Pol Chapel, located in the commune of Brignogan).

(7) As you leave the hamlet, near a beautiful stone cross, leave the road and take the path opposite, which joins a tarmac section at a place called Rohou. Continue until you reach a crossroad.

(8) First turn right then left onto a new path between the fields, then turn right towards the hamlet of Kergoloc.

(9) Follow the small road to the right and, at the next junction, turn right then left towards Keriot to reach another wayside cross.

(10) Turn left onto a grassy track which leads onto a small road serving the local homes. At the Fork in the road, continue on to the Croazou Chapel. Take the time to walk all the way round it to admire the seven stone crosses that adorn it. Turn left onto the road and follow it for about a hundred metres until you reach another track.

(11) Turn right onto this farm track, which, further on, crosses a small road and continues to a street just before the cemetery, which you walk alongside.

(12) Turn right into Rue du Docteur Lemoine, then left into Rue de Saint-Brévalaire to go round the Church of Saint-Brévalaire (note the elegant 47-metre-high bell tower). Cross a street, walk past the Chapel of Sainte-Anne and return, on the left, to the town hall car park (S/E).

A route alternating between coastal paths, country lanes and small roads between hamlets.
Between points (4) and (5), you can walk along the beach depending on the tide, or alternate between the beach and the coastal path.

Other possible starting points are near points (4) or before point (6).

La Digue.
Ménéham Guardhouse.
Ménéham Beach.
Croazou Chapel.
Sainte-Anne Chapel.
Saint-Brévalaire Church.