The Canadian Vimy Memorial, starting from Souchez

Park in the car park at Place de Keningston, near the town hall and the Souchez war memorial.

(S/E) Start with your back to the town hall, cross Rue Carnot and take Rue Raoult Briquet opposite.

(1) Leave the church on your left and continue along Rue Raoult Briquet. Take the^first right, Rue Victor Hugo. Cross Rue Tailliander on the right-hand side.

(2) At the fork, turn left onto Rue du 19 Mars 1962 (dead end) and continue to the end.

(3) At the junction, turn right onto Rue de Givenchy and follow the^GR®127(red and white markings). Go under the motorway bridge and continue straight ahead.

(4) Walk past the Canadian cemetery and follow the path alongside the woods on your right. You will come to an equestrian centre and a stadium.

(5) Follow the D55 to the right. Continue straight on until you reach the Vimy Memorial car park (Moroccan monument on the right).

(6) Leave the memorial on your left and continue along the tarmac road (south-east then south-west). Ignore a turn-off on the right and, at the junction shortly afterwards, veer to the right.

(7) After a good hundred metres, turn left and pass through the entrance gate to the Visitor Centre. Leave the museum on your right, visit the trench remains and continue eastwards to the road.

(8) Take the D55E2 on the right (Route Canadienne). Stay on this road and ignore the side turnings. When the road bends to the right (marker 143), keep left, pass through a gate and continue along a track.

(9) At the end, follow a forest track to the left. Go straight on (north-west) through the forest. Then go round the memorial on the right.

(10) Shortly after the memorial, take a path on the right and follow the^GR®127. Head downhill. At the bottom, rejoin the tarmac road and follow it to the left to enter Givenchy via Rue Lamartine. At^{the first} junction, turn left onto Rue Charles Ferrand. At the^second junction, turn right onto Rue de la République. At the fork, keep left, staying on Rue de la République (leave the^GR®).

(11) Pass Givenchy church and continue along Rue de la République. At the junction, carry on straight ahead onto Rue Marcel Sembat. Take the^second left, Rue Montesquieu.

(12) Immediately turn right onto Rue Victor Hugo. Continue along a path and enter a wood. At the junction, pass the gate on the left and continue straight ahead along the path heading west-north-west, which soon turns right.

(13) At the crossroads, ignore the^first path on the right and head north-east. At the next junction, turn left. At the fork that appears immediately, veer left. At a small clearing, turn left to leave the woods. You’ll come out onto Rue des Normands; follow it to the left, leaving the stadium on your right.

(14) At the junction, rejoin the^GR® and follow it straight on. Just before the motorway, turn right and walk alongside it. At the end, take a sharp left and go under the motorway bridge. Continue straight on along Rue Jean Jaurès. After about 700 m, turn left into Rue Voltaire. Take the^first right, Rue Émile Verdière. The street turns left and leads to the church.

(1) Turn right onto Rue Raoul Briquet. Cross Rue Carnot and you will reach Place de Kensington (S/E).

(S/E) Bars and restaurants.

In the forest, I recommend the Visorando GPS app or using a compass to make sure you don’t get lost.

(7) The ground is riddled with shell holes and huge mine craters.
Visit the website https://www.lieux-insolites.fr/cicatrice... or visit the museum and the trenches along the route.