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(S) From the campsite, head towards the church in Préveranges, turn right onto the road towards Saint-Marien, pass a stopover lodge and then, 100 m further on, turn right onto Rue Saint-Martin and follow it for about 200 m.
(1) Leave Préveranges, take a path on the left, then carefully follow the road to Saint-Marien on the right and continue for about 250 m.
(2) Take the first path on the right leading to the hamlet of Betoux.
(3) After a few houses, just after a bridge over the Joyeuse, take a path on the left. Cross the Joyeuse again and climb a hill; head towards a pond. Turn right, following the pond, and continue along the path. Pass a house with an old well and carry on straight ahead until you reach a bend.
(4) Take a path on the left; it climbs for about 400 m then turns sharply right to join a tarmac road. Pass under a railway bridge on the left. Head towards Le Magnoux.
(5) Cross the hamlet of Le Magnoux heading west. At the top of a hill, turn left and reach a crossroads where a water tower stands (alt. 504 m), the highest point in the Cher department and the Centre region. Continue a few metres along the D203 to the right to move away from the water tower.
(6) Leave it immediately by taking the road on the left, follow the chestnut woods and take thefirst road on the right, heading down to Beddes and the source of the Indre on your right.
(7) At the source of the Indre, take the path on the left which climbs through and then along the edge of the woods. Take the first small road on the left. Follow this road to Chez Jabier. Cross the D3E with care and take the road opposite. This road continues as a long, descending path.
(8) Turn right onto a grassy path for about 100 m and take an uphill path leading to the D3E road. Take this road to the left, taking care, to reach Saint-Priest-la-Marche.
(9) Turn left at the church and walk down to the stream (Indre) and cross it. Walk back up the grassy path opposite to the stadium, then take the road on the left. Reach the hamlet of La Lande.
(10) Take a street on the left and, 100 m further on, turn right. At a junction, continue straight ahead: the road continues as a path opposite. About 300 m further on, you reach the boundary between the Cher and Indre departments. At the departmental boundary, continue straight ahead then turn left at the next junction. Take a small road towards Pointe Mazière heading west for about 300 m. Turn right onto a path lined with chestnut trees that runs alongside a small wood and leads to a track; take this on the left.
(11) Turn left again onto a small road that passes between two ponds. Pass through the hamlets of La Saigne and Pointe Mazière. Once past the last houses in Pointe Mazière, turn right. The road descends the slope (grade of 20%). Climb back up to Chez Piot, stay on the main road to the left and go past a sports ground on the right. Turn left to descend into the centre of Pérassay (380 m).
(12) Leave Pérassay via the D71, then after 600 m take the small road leading downhill to the right. When you reach the old mill, turn right before the footbridge (private footbridge) and cross the Indre. Head up the grassy path opposite, then take the first path on the left. At the next three-way junction, take the path on the left and follow it to the D71. Continue to the right and cross the D917 in the village of Genest.
(13) Continue straight on for about 100 m until you reach the GR® 46 (red and white markings, which you will follow until the end of this stage). Take the path opposite and go down to the three-way junction. Take the path opposite, slightly to the right, and continue to the small road. Turn left, following the path alongside the pond, then right towards Beaulieu Castle. Before reaching the castle, take the path on the right and immediately turn right again. Follow this path, which overlooks a small pond, until just before the old mill.
(14) Before crossing the stream, take thefirst path on the left and follow it to the right, climbing up to the small Route des Granges. Take thesecond road on the right and then right again onto the D110. Pass Puybertier, follow a path on the right that cuts across the bend and head towards Moulin Retord.
(15) Leave the D110 for a track on the left and cross the Ruisseau de Beaulieu. Pass the Moulin Gras buildings on your left and follow the small road running parallel to the valley, which takes you past the superbly renovated buildings of the Moulin Vieux. At the bridge, head up the D71h to the left and take the first track on the left, which joins the main road further up.
(16) Turn right, then follow signs for Belfat. Cross the hamlet and reach a bend.
On leaving Belfat, head down a stony track to the right to a footbridge crossing the stream. Head back up opposite along a path through the woods which leads out onto the hillside (panoramic view of the surrounding hills). Continue straight on, cross the D26 and the River Indre by taking the path opposite, and head back up towards the village of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre.
(17) Before entering the village, continue left towards the retirement home, then straight on. Cross the river at the ford and head up towards the D54; take it to the left, then the first path on the right. Follow it straight on to Pierre Blanche. At the hamlet of Pierre Blanche, take the road on the right. Go straight on, then take thefirst road on the left. Pass the Varennes farm.
(18) Take the track on the right which runs alongside the Étang de Ligny. Reach the entrance to Ligny, turn right onto a narrow path then onto the track which continues from it. At the road, turn right (the route runs alongside the Dryades golf course). At the D54 (calvary), go straight ahead then turn left until you reach the houses of Lissaunay
At the first house, take a track to the right.
(19) In a bend (small pond), take a grassy path on the left marked by a slope. Cross a stream via a footbridge and climb up the opposite hillside to take a track on the left at the edge of the woods. Shortly after a pond, opposite the Grandes Ternes farm, turn right and descend almost to a stream.
(20) Take the hairpin bend on the right; it leads to the D54b county road, which you follow to the left. In the middle of the fields stands the Tour Gazeau (private property), the remains of a12th- century fortress mentioned by George Sand in her novel *Mauprat*.
(21) At a three-way junction, turn left towards L’Embranchement, then right at the corner of a cemetery; head towards Pouligny-Saint-Martin (elevation 283).
(22) At the D36, continue straight on towards the church (a12th-century Romanesque church preserving naive frescoes depicting work in the fields). Leave Pouligny-Saint-Martin via the road running below the church. At a three-way junction, turn left and at the next junction leave the Malgache farm on your left. Continue for about 250 m.
(23) Continue straight on, following theGR®®46andGR®®100, and leave theGR®® des Maîtres sonneur pedestrian route on your right.
(24) At the four-way crossroads, turn right and head towards Vaudouan; take the road on the left, then the first path on the right, then the first path on the left, which you will follow until you reach the D940
(25) Cross the D940 with care and take the small road opposite
(26) At the hamlet of Rivarennes, take the road on the right and follow it for about 800 m
(27) Take a path on the left, turn right, follow the edge of a pond and continue straight on, passing between two ponds; at the road, immediately take a path on the left, cross La Couarde and continue straight on
(28) At Le Mont, take the road on the right, enter the village of Le Magny on the left past the cemetery and reach the finish
(E) Finish: car park at the village hall
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