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The car park is located next to the Agudelle cemetery.
(S/E) Leave the car park by taking the road from Agudelle to Saint-Simon-de-Bordes, which passes in front of the cemetery and the church gate. This section of the route forms part of the SaintongeGRP®® trail, marked in red and yellow.
After the last houses in Agudelle, the road bends to the right. Take the second road on the left towards Chez Gillet.
(1) In front of Chez Gillet, at the crossroads, take the farm track following the hedge of the beautiful property on the left.
The farm track leads towards the woods. The track gives way to a lovely forest lane.
Further on, the forest lane turns into a farm track at the edge of the woods (on the left). On leaving the woods, the track runs alongside a vineyard plot on the left.
(2) Almost immediately, turn left onto a wide farm track between two vineyard plots.
The farm track turns into a forest lane at the entrance to the woods.
Five to six hundred metres further on, at a crossroads, take the small path on the right which remains flat. This path runs alongside cultivated fields and continues through the woods, close to the edge.
After another left-hand bend, it soon joins the D151 road. Turn left onto the road leading down towards the Etang d’Allas.
(3) Before the lake and in the wide bend to the right, you will see the Petit Bois fish farm on the right-hand side of the road. Take the forest track that starts on the left and remains flat.
The path soon begins to climb. Continue, taking care to turn right to climb up to a plateau. The path runs alongside the Etang d'Allas deep within the woods, then, further on, takes a wide bend to the left and begins to climb slightly again.
(4) Take the first path on the right, which once again runs alongside the shore of the Étang d'Allas deep within the woods.
The path turns into a farm track as you return to cultivated fields.
After a path that descends to the right towards the lake, there is a lovely view of it and the opposite bank. Continue on towards Chez Curoux.
Turn right onto the road which descends slightly to go round the houses in this hamlet.
The road heads towards the hamlet of Le Groisard, which you leave on your left, then passes further on by Le Grand Maine (on your right) before coming to an X-shaped crossroads.
(5) Cross the junction carefully and take the road opposite, which runs alongside the houses at Chez Houmeau.
Continue straight on, including taking the farm track on the right at the first houses in Agudelle.
At the crossroads, turn right onto the road leading to the 19th-century château known as Maison de la Tour.
The farm track runs between the farm buildings adjacent to the château.
Note: during wet weather, the track can be very muddy due to the farm’s tractors.
Continue straight ahead along the track, which crosses a small stream before climbing slightly towards a wood, in front of which it turns sharply left.
Further on, the farm track takes a wide bend to the right as it enters the woodland. Ignore the track branching off to the left.
When you reach the clearing, walk along the right-hand side of the recently installed fence at the edge of the woodland. Continue along a narrow path between two embankments in the forest for about 150 metres (the path is poorly marked and not always clearly visible for about 30 metres).
(6) The path leads onto a forest track, which you take by turning left.
The forest track runs along the edge of the woodland at times and through sections of woodland at others. Continue straight on until you reach the D154E1 road.
Cross this small road with care and continue along the forest track opposite, between the vineyards.
Continue straight on until you reach a T-junction. Turn right, with your back to the hamlet of Chez Mathieu.
Shortly afterwards, at the corner of a vineyard plot, turn left onto the farm track leading towards a Y-junction of small roads.
(7) Turn left onto the road leading towards the hamlet of Chez Mathieu, which you leave on your left.
At the next crossroads, turn left towards the woods. The road curves to the right and follows the edge of the woods.
Continue to the next crossroads, where the route takes the left-hand road back to Agudelle.
At the entrance to the village, walk past the cemetery and the church before reaching the car park on the left, which marks the end of this walk (S/E).
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