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Departure from Place Maurice Bedel, which offers shaded parking (hiking sign) opposite the Usseau school and near the Saint-Hilaire church.
Markings: Brick red + Pale blue
(S/E) Head north towards the church, follow the D75 and leave the church on your right. At the intersection (cross), turn left and follow the D9 towards Leigné-sur-Usseau. Then take the first small road on the right and pass by the Château de La Motte on your left. Pass the hamlet of Les Portes Rouges.
(1) At the next intersection, turn left onto a grassy path. At the end, follow a small road to the right. Soon, the tarmac gives way to a path. Go downhill, cross a stream and go back up the opposite side on a grassy path. At the corner of a fence, turn right and rejoin the tarmac.
(2) When the road turns right, take thesecond path on the left (grassy path). Walk past a house on your left and continue along a sunken path. Ignore a path branching off to the right, stay parallel to a power line and pass at the foot of a pylon. Walk past a copse on your left, continue between the fields, ignore a path branching off to the left and you will soon come to a small road. Follow it to the right for about 50 metres.
(3) At the crossroads, turn left towards La Bâte. Walk past a pigeon farm on your right, then a wood on your left. At the next crossroads, take a kind of cattle grid (for game), turn left and enter the woods. Follow the main path, west-west then south, ignoring vague tracks on either side. Take a second cattle grid, leave the woods and continue between the fields. You will come out onto a small road. Follow it to the right for about 75 metres.
(4) Then take a small road on the left towards La Pidoire. When the road turns right, leave it and take a grassy path on the left. Ignore a path on the left and continue to the houses of La Coudrinière. The path then gives way to tarmac. At a place called Les Rimbaults, continue straight ahead on a path.
(5) After about 150 metres, turn right onto a downhill path. Cross a stream, turn left with the path and go uphill.
(6) Follow the road to the left. At the next crossroads, continue straight on towards Les Métiviers and Saint-Éloi, and go down the road. At the bottom, take a grassy path on the left which, at the beginning, runs parallel to the gravel access road to Les Métiviers.
(7) Shortly before a small road, turn sharply right and go uphill. Ignore a path on the left (not shown on the map), walk past a house on your left and rejoin the tarmac road. At the next intersection, continue straight ahead and note the Prieuré de Remenueil on your right.
(8) At the next crossroads, first turn right then left to follow a small road (oratory). Cross the facilities and buildings of a quarry. Pass a large gate on your left and then two large stone saws on your right. Continue east on a path lined with a hedge on the left (note a pond and a manor house on the right). Come out onto a small road and follow it to the right.
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(9) At the T-junction, turn left. At the intersection after about 50 metres, continue straight ahead on the small road (ignore the green arrow indicating a right turn). At the next junction, go straight ahead on a path.
(10) At the end, turn left. At the next junction, turn right onto Allée du Moulin and descend into a residential area.
Red brick markings
At the end, turn left and enter Usseau. Walk past the school and, at the end of the road, you will find yourself back at Place Maurice Bedel (S/E).
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