Les deux gares depuis Carency

Cette randonnée vous fera passer par la campagne, aux alentours de Carency et Villers-au-Bois, et sur l'ancienne ligne du tortillard (ligne de chemin de fer reliant Lens à Frevent).

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 6.88 mi
  • ◔
    Average duration: 3h 20 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Moderate

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 184 ft
  • ↘
    Descent: - 184 ft

  • ▲
    Highest point: 482 ft
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 299 ft
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐ City: Carency (62144)
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 50.380528° / E 2.703805°
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 2406E, 2406O
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Description of the walk

Start from the car park on Rue de la Gare.

(S/E) With the old station on your right, turn right. At the end of the road, first turn right then left.

(1) Turn left onto this road and continue straight on twice until you reach a dirt track. Follow it to the right until you reach the first crossroads, at a place called ‘la Moniquelle’.

(2) Take the path on the right and carry on straight ahead until you reach Le Fournier.

(3) Turn right; at the end, take Rue du 8 Mai on the left and continue straight on until you reach the start of a very wide left-hand bend.

(4) Take the path on the right, turn left immediately, and you’ll come to a cross path.

(5) Turn right and continue straight on until you reach a cross-path at elevation 136.

(6) First turn right then left, and carry on straight ahead until you reach the Grande Rue.

(7) Go down this street to the left for 100 m, then turn right onto Rue de Servin (D65), and take the first street on the left, Rue du Guesnet, until it ends at Rue Pasteur.

(8) Head up this street to the right, and carry on straight ahead along Rue Cernier until you reach the end.

(9) Carry on straight ahead until you reach a small copse. Go past it to reach the Fork in the road at Louvière.

(10) Take the path on the right, passing the British cemetery and the old narrow-gauge railway station, then you’ll reach a road.

(11) Cross it and head straight on along Rue Roger Salengro. At the next junction, carry on straight ahead until you reach the entrance to a wood.

(12) Carry on along the same path until you reach the first houses.

(13) Follow the street that continues from the path until you reach the T-junction and Rue Joliot Curie.

(14) Take the street on the left, then turn right onto Rue du Quai, then right again onto Rue du Moulin. At the top of the street, keep right, then turn left, and rejoin the (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : mi 0 - alt. 299 ft - Car park on Rue de la Gare
  2. 1 : mi 0.36 - alt. 377 ft - Rue du Général Barbot
  3. 2 : mi 0.73 - alt. 433 ft - La Moniquelle
  4. 3 : mi 0.96 - alt. 436 ft - Le Fournier
  5. 4 : mi 1.65 - alt. 427 ft - Wide left-hand bend
  6. 5 : mi 1.9 - alt. 413 ft - Bend
  7. 6 : mi 2.31 - alt. 443 ft - Elevation 136
  8. 7 : mi 2.62 - alt. 453 ft - Grande Rue
  9. 8 : mi 2.99 - alt. 472 ft - Rue Pasteur
  10. 9 : mi 3.59 - alt. 472 ft - End of Rue Cernier
  11. 10 : mi 4.22 - alt. 459 ft - Fourche, La Louvière
  12. 11 : mi 4.7 - alt. 449 ft - Road
  13. 12 : mi 5.33 - alt. 377 ft - Woodland
  14. 13 : mi 6.09 - alt. 328 ft - Houses
  15. 14 : mi 6.65 - alt. 312 ft - Rue Joliot Curie
  16. S/E : mi 6.88 - alt. 299 ft - Car park by the village hall

Notes

Pas de point d'eau

Worth a visit

Carency Church

Former narrow-gauge railway station

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