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To reach the car park, set your satnav for “9-9bis, Rue du Tordoir, Oignies”
(S/E) From the car park, head back to Rue du Tordoir and head south towards the long, plateau-shaped slag heap. Follow the street for 400m and turn left onto Rue Claude Debussy, then turn right onto Rue Samuel Goulet.
(1) At the end of the street, go through the gate and take the path on the left. Walk alongside the gardens of the houses for a few metres, then head into the woods.
(2) At the junction, take the straight path on the left and follow it for about 300 metres. When you reach a more open area, turn right onto the path that heads almost in the opposite direction. Walk past a sports ground and follow a wide, straight path between two rows of trees. Go through the gate and follow the path for about 200m.
(3) At the three-way junction with three paths ahead of you, take the one on the right. About 100 metres further on, on your right, is a wildlife observatory.
Continue along the path after the observatory, turn left and then stay on the path as it curves to the right to reach the foot of the slag heap.
(4) Walk around it in a clockwise direction. Follow this path for about 1 km.
(5) When you reach the western end, turn right then left onto a smaller path leading up the slag heap. At the top (viewpoint), head back down the same path and, before the end of the descent, turn right to complete the walk around the slag heap
(6) At the junction with a wide path, go straight on. Follow this straight path to a viewpoint, then retrace your steps slightly and take the staircase leading down to your left.
Turn left, then immediately left again; the path crosses a section of woodland, not far from the houses, then moves away from them by turning left.
Then leave the woodland and turn right to return to the pithead of pit 9-9bis (large open area). Cross the pithead and head back towards the headframes (metal towers), the starting point (S/E).
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