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Starting point and access: Faremoutiers-Pommeuse station.
- Transilien - Line P, on the section between Paris-Est and Coulommiers.
Take the only exit on the only platform.
No signposts
(S/E) When you leave the station, turn left and cross the car park. Turn left again to cross the railway line at the level crossing. Cross the D25 at the pedestrian crossing and follow it to the left and downhill towards Meaux. Cross Rue du Stade on the right and continue straight ahead towards Promenade du Grand Morin.
Yellow signposts (rare)
(1) At the bus stop, turn right onto Promenade du Grand Morin (do not cross the river). Go through a gate and stay on the dirt track with the river on your left.
No markings
(2) At the first fork just before a bridge, take the path on the right (do not take the bridge as the signpost indicates). Keep the Aubetin (a much smaller river than the Grand Morin) on your left. After about 200m, at a second fork, cross the Aubetin on a small bridge. Immediately after, at a third fork, turn left and take a footbridge over a stream. At the next junction, follow the hard-surfaced path on the right (not shown on the 1:25,000 map). At another fork, turn left towards some sports equipment. Cross a sort of car park, pass under a portico and you will come out onto the D216 at the entrance to Pommeuse.
Yellow signposting
(3) Turn right and, after a few metres, turn left onto the D15 towards Saint-Augustin. Walk alongside the church on your right, then turn right into Rue Paul Niclausse. Ignore a small street on your left, then a dead end on your right.
Yellow + red and white signposts
At the Pommeuse exit sign, turn left and follow theGR®14(sculpture of a pair of giant pincers on the right). Ignore the alley on the left and continue straight ahead on a path. Join the railway line and follow it on your right as it climbs very gently.
Yellow markings
(4) At the crossroads, turn right and take the bridge over the railway line. At the end of the bridge, ignore a path on the right and continue straight ahead, climbing slightly. You will come to a small road and follow it to the right (no signpost here).
(5) At the next crossroads (chapel and information sign a few metres opposite), take a wide path on the right and follow a farm building on your left. Continue between meadows and then enter the wooded area. Ignore a path on the left and descend onto a stony path (embankment).
Yellow + red and white signposts
(6) Take the next path on the left (small rocks at the entrance) and rejoin theGR®14. Follow a fence on your right and, at the end of it, continue straight ahead. At a three-way junction, turn right and descend slightly. Ignore a path on the left, cross Rue Paul Niclausse (again) and continue opposite, descending towards Lavanderie. At the bottom, note a wash house on the right and cross Rue de Mondétour.
(7) A few metres further on, turn left onto Chemin de la Cornée. After walking alongside a meadow on your left, walk between two fences, then through a wood and finally alongside horse pastures. At the end of the path, rejoin the tarmac road and turn right. Cross a stream and then the Aubetin (note the pretty waterfall on your left).
Yellow signposting
(8) Then turn right onto Rue du Moulin Jacquot (ignore anotherPR® on your left, as well as theGR®14, whose purple route on the map is not up to date). Take the first left, Chemin de la Petite Rue, and climb a steep hill. At the top (bus shelter), turn right onto Chemin des Malendos. Follow a hedge on your right and enter a wood. At the T-junction, go left uphill and follow a fence on your right.
(9) At the top, turn right and head north, ignoring the paths on either side. Follow a field on your left and, on your right, a fenced plot of very young conifers, then a wood. At the end of a laurel hedge, you will come to the junction of twoPR® trails (yellow arrows on the right, indicating north and south, respectively).
(10) Then turn left (west) and walk along a fenced meadow on your right. Pass a narrow plot planted with trees on your left and you will come to the corner of a wood. Take the path on the right at the edge of the wood. After a hairpin bend, continue along a narrow path, keeping the wood on your left. At the end, turn left and you will come out at the side of the road.
(11) Climb over the safety barrier and cross the road (
, take care). Continue straight ahead along a wide path through the woods. Return to the railway line on your right, then leave it and pass a sewage treatment plant on your right. Go through a forest gate and, a few metres before a bend in the wide path, turn right onto a narrower path between two fences. Turn left along the railway line, cross the D25 and return to the station (S/E).
To return home:
- Transilien - Line P, towards Paris-Est or Coulommiers.
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