The cross-border section between Bachy and Rumes

A pleasant walk between France and Belgium with no real change in altitude.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 15.43 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 4h 30 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Moderate

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 36 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 36 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 74 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 41 m
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐ District: Bachy (59830)
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 50.55312° / E 3.259758°
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 2605O
  • Hour-by-hour weather

Description of the walk

Car park at Place de la Liberté, Bachy.

(S/E) Turn right into Rue Pasteur. Ignore a dead-end street on the right and, at the next crossroads, turn right onto Rue de l'Égalité.

(1) When this street bends right, keep right. Leaving the Chemin de la Plaine on your left, turn right.

(2) At the T-junction, turn left into Allée du Château, then right into Rue Roger Salengro. Follow this street to the junction with Rue de la Libération.

(3) Continue straight on Rue Henri Pottier, which becomes Rue de la Fraternité.

(4) Cross the main road and take the first road on the left (Rue Calmette). After approx. 600m, cross the main road again and take the track opposite. After approx. 500m, the track veers left for 300m.

(5) At Rue de la Fraternité, turn right, then after 250m, leave the street and turn left onto a track.

(6) At the end of the lane, turn right, then after 250m, turn left with the lane. At the end, turn right onto Rue du Sentier.

(7) When Rue du Sentier bends 90° to the right, take the path on the left after the small substation - asphalt at first, then concrete.

(8) At the next T-junction, turn right to reach the entrance to Rumes.

(9) Just before entering Rumes, turn left onto Rue de l'Aventure, a tarmac road running alongside a cemetery.

(10) 100m before the railroad line, turn left into Rue du Pont d'Eau before climbing over the bridge and following the railroad line.

(11) At the junction of Rue du Pont d'Eau and Rue Bruenne, fork right, then after 100m, turn left into Chemin du Bois de Mourdry. Leave a track on the right and after the farm, opposite the wood, follow the track, which turns left. Continue straight ahead to the Rue du Boez crossroads.

(12) Turn left into this street, then right onto the dirt track. You'll come to another crossroads in a wood.

(13) Turn right, aiming for the Bachy bell tower.

(1) At the end of the road, turn right into Rue de l'Égalité, then left into Rue Pasteur to return to the car park (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 74 m - Parking Place de la Liberté
  2. 1 : km 0.23 - alt. 74 m - To the right Rue de l'Égalité
  3. 2 : km 0.6 - alt. 71 m - Left Allée du Château
  4. 3 : km 1.29 - alt. 58 m - Straight on Rue Henri Pottier
  5. 4 : km 2.35 - alt. 52 m - Cross the D955
  6. 5 : km 4.18 - alt. 43 m - Rue de la Fraternité, turn right
  7. 6 : km 5.51 - alt. 53 m - Turning right
  8. 7 : km 7.09 - alt. 54 m - To the left of the small substation
  9. 8 : km 8.82 - alt. 49 m - To the right
  10. 9 : km 9.69 - alt. 51 m - Left Rue de l'Aventure
  11. 10 : km 10.27 - alt. 46 m - To the right Rue Bruenne
  12. 11 : km 13.64 - alt. 59 m - Left Rue du Boez
  13. 12 : km 14.24 - alt. 54 m - To the right
  14. S/E : km 15.43 - alt. 74 m - Parking Place de la Liberté

Notes

This walk can be shortened by turning left at no. 3 Rue de la Libération, then left in Belgium onto Rue de Sartaigne, which joins our Rue du Sentier circuit just before (7) .

Reviews and comments

4.4 / 5
Based on 10 reviews

Reliability of the description
4.8 / 5
Ease of following the route
4.5 / 5
Route interest
3.8 / 5
vincent.liefooghe
vincent.liefooghe

Overall rating : 3.7 / 5

Date of your route : May 01, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

Quite an easy walk. However, there is a difference between the description and the route, between points 7 and 8 (you have to continue along the path to the T at the Rumes church, then turn left).
The same applies between points 10 and 11: go under the railway line instead of along it.

In short, it's better to follow the track than the signs.

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MARTINS Olivier-Arnaud
MARTINS Olivier-Arnaud

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jul 10, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

too much bitumen

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MARTINS Olivier-Arnaud
MARTINS Olivier-Arnaud

easy to follow
too much tarmac for my taste
but a nice course

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JMJournet
JMJournet

Overall rating : 4 / 5

Date of your route : Sep 16, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing

Too many highways and byways

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jldupuisvals
jldupuisvals

Overall rating : 3 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 18, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★☆☆☆☆ Very disappointing

This walk is of very limited interest.
It's true that we're crossing the countryside, but it's not particularly beautiful - no sights, no real points of interest.
Very ugly housing in the 2 villages we pass through.
Precise and very correct description, no problem there.

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VCANET
VCANET

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Nov 17, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A beautiful walk in a typical northern landscape.

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mollymaya
mollymaya

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Oct 22, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

Beautiful circuit

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b j guerrien
b j guerrien

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Sep 23, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

at point 10, the street before the railway is called chemin de Louvry and not chemin du pont D'eau

Otherwise a lovely walk in beautiful sunshine

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caricou5988
caricou5988

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 04, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

Very nice walk.

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NATHCASS
NATHCASS

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Apr 30, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

superb hike!
Very enjoyable!

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diederiek
diederiek

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Dec 11, 2016
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

First time VisoRando.
Great!

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