Walk in a figure of eight through Les Weppes

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The small roads and villages of Les Weppes are a pleasure to explore, in a region where there are few of the kind of leafy, winding country lanes that we love.

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    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 7.78 mi
  • ◔
    Average duration: 3h 40 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Moderate
  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 98 ft
  • ↘
    Descent: - 98 ft
  • ▲
    Highest point: 164 ft
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 62 ft
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐ City: Capinghem (59160)
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 50.644002° / E 2.961717°
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    IGN map(s): Ref. 2404E
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Description of the walk

Park in the car park of the Lucie Aubra school complex, Rue d’Ennetières in Capinghem.

(S/E) As you leave the car park, follow Rue d’Ennetières to the right. Stay on this road until you reach the crossroads near a wayside cross.

(1) Turn left onto Rue de Capinghem. Follow this road, which winds through the fields. Pass the hamlet of La Carnoy on your left and the Ferme du Buffle on your right. Pass under a high-voltage power line and reach a junction just before a sharp left-hand bend in the road.

(2) Turn right onto Rue Saint-Martin.

(3) At the end, turn right onto Rue du Blanc Coulon. Cross Rue de Prémesques on the right-hand side and turn immediately left at the playground. Take the bridge over the A25.

(4) Take thefirst right, Rue Aubry, and follow the motorway. Take thefirst left, Rue des Trois Fétus, and follow it straight on until you reach the junction of the same name.

(5) Cross the road and continue straight ahead, still on Rue des Trois Fétus. Stay on this road, pass under a high-voltage power line and you will immediately come to a T-junction.

(6) Turn left onto Rue de Jérusalem. Take thefirst right, Rue Boutry. After a left-hand bend followed by a right-hand bend, you will reach a junction at a place called Bas Champs.

(7) Then take a path on the left. Pass under the high-voltage power line again and arrive at a junction.

(8) Turn left towards the village. At the next junction, go straight on, rejoin the tarmac road and enter Escobecques. At the war memorial, turn left onto Rue de La Forterie.

(9) Just past the town hall, take a lane on the right and walk past a playground. You’ll come to a tarmac road; follow it to the left. Stay on this road and ignore all side roads. Enter Ennetières and continue to a crossroads.

(10) Turn right onto Rue du Bourg. Walk past the church and the cemetery on your left. Turn left onto Rue du Blanc Coulon and cross the bridge over the A25. You will come to the crossroads you passed on the way out.

(3) Take thefirst right, the same one you took on the way out.

(2) Turn right into Rue Saint-Martin. Ignore a road on the left, leave the Grande Cour farmstead on your left and pass under a high-voltage power line. Ignore a turn-off to the right (marker 44).

(11) Shortly afterwards, turn left into Cité des Broux. At the end, turn left onto Rue de Sequedin. Walk past the church on your right, continue straight on into Rue d’Ennetières and you will find the school car park on your right (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : mi 0 - alt. 161 ft - Lucie Aubrac school complex car park
  2. 1 : mi 0.43 - alt. 141 ft - Calvary
  3. 2 : mi 1.17 - alt. 112 ft - Rue de Capinghem x Rue Saint-Martin
  4. 3 : mi 1.25 - alt. 115 ft - Rue Saint-Martin x Rue du Blanc Coulon
  5. 4 : mi 1.71 - alt. 118 ft - Rue du Pindo x Rue Aubry
  6. 5 : mi 2.58 - alt. 69 ft - Les Trois Fétus
  7. 6 : mi 3.15 - alt. 66 ft - Rue des Trois Fétus x Rue de Jérusalem
  8. 7 : mi 3.78 - alt. 72 ft - Bas Champs
  9. 8 : mi 4.2 - alt. 105 ft - Junction
  10. 9 : mi 4.6 - alt. 112 ft - Escobecques - Start of a lane
  11. 10 : mi 5.76 - alt. 138 ft - Rue du Bourg - Églie Saint-Martin (Ennetières-en-Weppes)
  12. 11 : mi 7.28 - alt. 144 ft - Cité des Broux
  13. S/E : mi 7.78 - alt. 161 ft - Lucie Aubrac school complex car park

Reviews and comments

3.7 / 5
Based on 6 reviews
Reliability of the description
4 / 5
Ease of following the route
4 / 5
Route interest
3.2 / 5
User 23739974

Overall rating : 2.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 16, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★☆☆☆☆ Very disappointing
Very busy route : No

The hike is frankly uninteresting; it's just a single-lane road with no hard shoulder, so you need to be careful.
We avoid the few green spots
and luckily the app works well because it's not a marked hike, which means you have to regularly check that you haven't gone too far.
It's only good for existing.

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mbolo
mbolo

Overall rating : 3.7 / 5

Date of your route : Apr 08, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Overall, this walk is straightforward and very enjoyable! There’s plenty of tarmac but few cars, so it’s a pleasant and easy walk!
The written instructions contain an error, or perhaps an ambiguity.
I’ll copy that part of the text here:
''6) Follow Rue de Jérusalem to the left. Take the first right, Rue Boutry. After a left-hand bend followed by a right-hand bend, you’ll come to a junction.

(7) At the hamlet of Bas Champs, take a path on the left. Pass under the high-voltage power line again._''
In fact, in Chapter 6, after the right-hand bend, there is no crossroads but a path on the left that leads across the fields under the high-voltage power line. You must therefore take this path.
Then, still on this path, you will later come to a path branching off to the left, leading into the village of Escobecques.
Marc Bollard

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majax
majax

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Nov 28, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A lovely stroll in the countryside. Narrow roads, a few footpaths... A spot I hadn’t been to before

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Pierre59110
Pierre59110

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 22, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

A relatively easy route, mostly on tarmac.
We did it on a Sunday morning in August, when there were few walkers or cars about. To be checked at another time of year.

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chti'baroudeur
chti'baroudeur

Overall rating : 3 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 06, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

far too much tarmac for my liking; we passed under a high-voltage power line several times; the stretch along the ring road was noisy due to the traffic

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jpacmuro
jpacmuro

Overall rating : 4 / 5

Date of your route : May 08, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A pleasant route through the Weppes. Some of the location markers aren’t actually there, but it’s not a major issue

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