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Parking is available in the car park of Marcilly church or, failing that, on Rue du Moulin, alongside the church. Marcilly is located about twelve kilometres north of Meaux and six kilometres east of Saint-Soupplets.
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(S/E) With your back to the church, turn right onto Rue des Epinettes (D401). After a few dozen metres, turn right onto Rue des Mousseaux (D127) towards Douy-la-Ramée. Walk alongside a large building and cross Rue Fleurette on the right-hand side. When the road bends to the left, continue straight ahead along a path that is paved at the beginning. Head north, first between two fields and then with a hedge of shrubs on your left.
(1) At elevation 102, you will see a path opposite that leads to a wood (this path is a cul-de-sac) and, on the left, a plot of fallow land. Turn right at a right angle onto a path that heads due east between the fields.
After a short right-hand bend downhill, you will come to a small road. Follow it downhill to the left. After a bench on the left, you will reach a three-way junction.
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(3) Take the right-hand lane, i.e. continue on the small road, heading due east and more or less flat. When the road bends to the right, there is access to the banks of the Théouranne on the left. Stay on the road and follow the course of the river more or less closely, with poplar woods on the left and meadows on the right. After passing a water service station on the right, you will come out onto the D38.
(4) Cross the road at this point (further on there is less visibility), turn left and follow the road on its right-hand side. Cross the Théouranne. Shortly afterwards, when the D38 turns left, continue straight on along a smaller road (signposted "aéromodélisme").
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(5) After about 50 metres, take thefirst field path on the right, heading due east.
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At the next crossroads, turn right (east-south-east) and walk along a wood on your left.
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(6) At the corner of the woods, turn left and continue along the edge. Then head north-east between the fields, on the path that becomes grassy, and climb the gentle slope. On the left, the roofs of the Champfleury farm gradually come into view. Before the top of the slope, turn left at a 90° angle and head towards the farm buildings. Walk along the farm on your left and continue along a small road.
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(7) At the crossroads, follow the road to the left, downhill. Ignore a yellow arrow indicating a left turn. Immediately after, when the road begins to curve to the left, take a path that branches off to the right (west-northwest). Descend a little and rejoin the D38.
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(8) Ignore the yellow arrow pointing to the right and cross the road at this point. Walk a few metres to the left along the road and join the grassy path below as soon as possible. Follow this path to the right. Walk alongside horse pastures and then cross a short embankment. You will come out onto a small road.
(9) Follow the road to the left, towards La Ramée/Forfry. On your left, walk alongside a meadow, a wall, stables and another meadow. At the "Fontaine les Nonnes" sign, note the chapel and castle on your left and the ruins of a windmill on your right. Continue west on the small road. Cross the hamlet of La Mare and reach La Ramée.
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(10) Follow the D9 to the left, towards Forfry/Marcilly. Pass by the old watermill (on the right) and cross the Théouranne river again.
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(11) At the crossroads, ignore the yellow signpost indicating to continue straight on towards Forfry and turn left onto the D127 towards Marcilly. Follow the road south, then south-east and then south again.
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EPR®® path joins the road from the right: continue south on the road. Walk alongside a poplar grove on your left.
(12) At the end of the woods, leave the road and turn sharply left onto a path that runs along the other edge of the poplar grove and then enters the woods. Ignore a path that branches off to the right and stay on the main path, which soon leaves the woods and runs alongside a field on the right, then rejoins the woods.
(13) Cross a private road on the left, walk along a meadow and note the castle on the left and, further on, its dovecote. After the meadow, go up, turning right and then left. You will reach the three-way junction you encountered on the way there.
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(3) Turn right and follow the small road you took on the way there, going uphill. Pass the bench (now on your right) and reach the field path you took on the way there.
(2) Continue along the road, still climbing. At the top of the hill, you will see the bell tower of Marcilly church on your right. You will reach Marcilly cemetery.
(14) At the corner of the cemetery, turn right. Then turn left into Rue du Moulin. Ignore the other streets on the right and stay on this main street, which has two short first turns right then left. Note the beautiful porch dating from 1811 on the right, take a final right turn and you will come out onto the church square (S/E).
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