Le Champ du Pigeon

A lovely walk through the north-west of Sepeaux, passing through the beautiful Bois de la Cour d’Aman and finishing in the Bois de Pinçon.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 8.74 mi
  • ◔
    Average duration: 4h 10 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Moderate

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 213 ft
  • ↘
    Descent: - 207 ft

  • ▲
    Highest point: 591 ft
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 394 ft
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐ City: Sépeaux (89116)
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 47.943146° / E 3.234883°
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 2519E
  • Hour-by-hour weather

Description of the walk

(S/E) The route starts at the market square.

Continue due south along Rue des Marches until you reach a T-junction. Go straight ahead, turn right onto the next path and continue until you reach a road.

(1) Head left until you reach the next path on the left. Turn left, ignoring two paths on the left a little further on, and carry on until you reach the next path on the right. Turn right and head through the woodland until you reach the next junction (marker 180). Carry on straight ahead until you reach the next path on the right.

(2) Turn right until you reach a wide T-junction.

(3) Turn right and, just after the water tower on your right, take the next path on the left and follow it until you reach a road. Turn left.

(4) Just past the hamlet of Les Guiberts, take thefirst path on the left until you reach a cross-path (marker 176). Turn right until you reach a road. Then make the first turn right then left and continue straight ahead until you reach a cross-path (marker 178).

(5) Turn left to reach a cross-path. Keep left and continue with the woodland on your left until the next junction.

(6) Turn left until you reach a road. Turn left and continue for about 50 metres.

(7) Turn right, ignore a path on the right a little further on, and take the next path on the left until you reach the next path on the right (marker 172).

(8) Turn right until you reach a cross-path. Turn right until you reach another cross-path (elevation 173). Turn left until you reach a cross-path.

(9) Turn left. About 400 m further on, ignore a path on the left and carry on straight ahead through the woodland until you reach the next path on the right.

(10) Turn right and join the D943 without crossing it. Head left along the D943, keeping well to the left-hand verge for about 150 m.

(11) Cross the D943 to the right with great care and set off straight ahead along the track. Follow it immediately to the left, then to the right, until you reach the next T-junction. Turn left until you come close to the D943.

(12) Continue along the path, keeping slightly to the right as it climbs, ignoring the path on the right a little further on. Carry on straight ahead and head downhill, ignoring the next road on the right. Carry on straight ahead and take the next road on the left (Rue de l’Ormoy), which leads onto the D3 a short distance further on. Head left, keeping well to the left-hand verge, until you reach the D943 without crossing it.

(13) Turn left for a few metres. Cross the D943 to the right with great care and head straight ahead along the grassy path until you reach a road. Head left for a few metres and take the path on the left. Follow this until you reach a cross-path. Turn right until you reach a road. Head straight on, ignoring two streets on the right a little further on, and continue to the market square, where you’ve arrived (S/E)

Waypoints

  1. S/E : mi 0 - alt. 394 ft - Market Square
  2. 1 : mi 0.57 - alt. 502 ft - Junction: Les Vignes du Beurre / Les Buissonnet
  3. 2 : mi 1.37 - alt. 584 ft - Bois de la Cour d’Aman junction
  4. 3 : mi 1.86 - alt. 584 ft - Junction: Les Bidauderies / Château d’Eau
  5. 4 : mi 2.43 - alt. 584 ft - Junction of Les Guiberts and Les Charlots
  6. 5 : mi 3.1 - alt. 584 ft - Junction
  7. 6 : mi 3.51 - alt. 564 ft - Junction: Les Bouchots / Les Caillotteries
  8. 7 : mi 4.05 - alt. 564 ft - Junction of Bois des Prevots and Le Champ du Pigeon
  9. 8 : mi 4.74 - alt. 564 ft - Path on the right (elevation 172)
  10. 9 : mi 5.6 - alt. 577 ft - Crossroads: path / path on the left
  11. 10 : mi 6.05 - alt. 561 ft - Crossroads: path / path on the right
  12. 11 : mi 6.39 - alt. 522 ft - Cross the D943 to the right / path straight ahead
  13. 12 : mi 7.04 - alt. 449 ft - Near the D943
  14. 13 : mi 7.9 - alt. 417 ft - Junction of the D3 and D943 on the left
  15. S/E : mi 8.74 - alt. 394 ft

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