Les Fonds du Hêtre

Parking is available in the town hall car park or around the church on Rue de la Mer.

(S/E) Leaving the town hall, facing the church, turn left and then immediately left again onto Rue du Prieuré. At the end of the street, continue along the path opposite. Ignore a path on the left, continue straight ahead until you reach the D33 road.

(1) Turn left onto Rue de la Mairie; at the T-junction, turn right onto Rue des Fermes. Ignore a road on your left, follow the bend to the left and then to the right. Pass the sports ground and go straight on to the water tower.

(2) Opposite the water tower, turn right, ignore the path on the left and continue along the path straight ahead. At the T-junction, turn left and follow the path to the road.

(3) Turn left, walk past the sewage treatment plant on your left and continue along the path to join the road. Cross the road and take the D479 opposite towards Les Grandes Dalles; continue to the second turn-off on the right, just before the beach, the Sentier des Douaniers^GR®21.

(4) Turn right and continue along the Sentier des Douaniers on the cliff, with the sea on your left. Follow the path to the end and take the Chemin du Moustier opposite, until you reach the Y-junction.

(5) Turn right at the three-way junction and continue along the path. Ignore two paths on your left and follow the path as it bends to the right and then at a right angle, to reach the road, Chemin du Bois, in the village of Sassetot-le-Mauconduit.

(6) Continue straight ahead along Chemin du Bois. At the end, at the T-junction, turn right. Follow the bend to the left onto Rue des Vingt Quatre Marches, ignore the road on the right and continue to the T-junction.

(7) Turn left onto Rue des Grandes Dalles, pass the sports ground on your right, go past the entrance to the ground and continue to the next road on the right, Rue du Moulin.

(8) Ignore Rue du Moulin and continue straight on, along Rue de l'Abbé Lemaitre. At the next junction, continue straight on, ignoring a turn-off to the right. At the next Y-junction, keep right, following the bend until you reach the exit from Sassetot-le-Mauconduit.

(9) A few metres after the village exit sign, turn into the first path on the right to join the road at a T-junction and leave the^GR®21

(10) Turn left onto Chemin des Dalles to reach the village of Ancretteville. Turn right at the first road, Rue de la Mairie, pass the church to reach an X-junction with a wayside cross. Turn left onto Route de Saint-Pierre, until you reach the first crossroads. Turn right onto Route de Sassetot; at the next crossroads, continue straight ahead. Pass the driveway leading to Angerval Castle on your right, then ignore the road ahead towards Écretteville-sur-Mer.

(11) Follow the D68 road to the left as it curves left, then take the first track on the right (marker 104), heading due west, after about 500m, and follow it until you reach the road at a bend.

(12) Take the road on the left. After a small pond on the left, at the T-junction in the hamlet of Clainville, turn right onto Rue Montmare. Turn right at the first road, Impasse du Bois Joli.

(13) Continue along the path ahead. At the building on the left, turn right (caution: unmaintained path with some gullies) to reach the road. Turn right and continue to the crossroads. Ignore the D79, turn right, go up Rue de la Mer and continue to the starting point (S/E).

Some paths between fields are not maintained and are overgrown with tall grass.

At point (13), unmaintained path with some gullies and tall grass.

Passage through ‘valleuses’. Valleuse: a small valley formed between two chalk cliffs, offering a constantly changing landscape shaped by the tides and seasons.

You can observe all these natural treasures whilst shellfish gathering along the foreshore. Foreshore: a strip of land forming part of the coastline, covered at high tide and exposed at low tide, or whilst walking the^GR®21via the Sentier des Douaniers for magnificent views.

Écretteville-sur-Mer:
Church of Saint Blaise and Notre-Dame.
War memorial.

Sassetot-le-Mauconduit:
18th-century château, converted into a hotel and restaurant.
18th-century Château de Briquedalles.
19th-century Church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité.

Ancretteville-sur-Mer:
Saint-Amand Church was built in the 18th century.
Next to the church stands an old carved cross.
The war memorial.
The 18th-century Château d’Angerval.
The Écombarville Calvary.