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Park in the car park in front of the school, below the church in Courpalay.
(S/E) At the car park exit, go down to the left to the wash house less than 100 m away.
(1) Retrace your steps, pass under the church, then in front of the church and go up opposite to reach the town hall.
(2) Turn left onto Rue de la Poste, then cross Rue Lafayette and continue straight ahead onto Rue du Château d'eau. When the street turns right, continue straight ahead onto the grassy farm track until you reach a road.
(3) Cross this small road and continue almost straight ahead. The grassy path passes to the left of a small farm, turns left and joins a road. Follow it to the right, pass a culvert, continue along the road which turns right, then left uphill.
(4) Take the first farm track on the right. At the crossroads (elevation 110), turn right again. Descend to the Yvron, cross over a culvert (sewage treatment plant on the left), and climb back up towards the village of Grand Bréau. Walk along a wire fence on your left, and at the first crossroads, opposite Rue des Froids Vents, turn left to visit the wash house, in the centre of a large courtyard.
(5) Return to the crossroads and turn left. At the D49a crossroads, turn left again and continue for about 200 m.
(6) Leave the road and take the farm track diagonally to the right. Join a road bordered on the opposite side by a long stone wall (Le Haras du Prieuré). Turn right, then left, and walk along this boundary wall.
(7) At the first crossroads, turn left, then left again, still following the stud farm fence. You will arrive at the (closed) entrance to the old priory and the wash house.
(8) Turn around, go back up to the crossroads and turn left onto Chemin du Moulin Aubert, signposted as a dead end. In wet weather, a section of about 200 m can be very muddy.
(9) After about 500 m, the main path turns right. Turn left to cross the Yères river on a small footbridge. Then turn right and continue on a fairly good path, heading generally north, which more or less follows the course of the river. At the T-junction with a tarmac road, turn left, going uphill, and you will arrive at the edge of the woods.
(10) Turn right onto the grassy path. After 250 m, the path improves and becomes paved.
Pass a few isolated buildings on the right and, in a bend before a small copse, turn right onto a path that quickly veers to the left. You will arrive at the cemetery.
(11) Continue to the church via Rue aux Ânes. Go down the main street on the right towards the river. Just before the bridge, there is an esplanade with a few benches, which is a good place for a picnic. Cross the bridge and you will reach a wash house about 50 metres further on.
(12) Walk up towards the town hall, turn left, then right onto Avenue du Général Leclerc. Walk past the water tower and you will reach the D211.
(13) Cross carefully and continue straight ahead on the path, which is closed to vehicles by a barrier. You will arrive at Château de la Grange Bléneau (do not enter the château, which is private property).
(14) Retrace your steps and rejoin the route by turning right. Continue straight ahead on the path. Cross the D201 with caution and continue straight ahead on a grassy path. At the first crossroads, turn right, following the power line, which also turns.
(15) When you reach the village of Trois Chênes, the path is blocked by a barrier. Take the first path on the left, then the first on the right. When you reach a road, turn right to reach the Petit Prince nursery school and the car park (S/E).
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