A walk through the fields around the village of Wihogne

Car park and starting point: Wihogne Church, Rue Lambert Dewonck, Wihogne.

(S/E) From the church, which you leave on your left, walk back down the street for just under a hundred metres and turn right into a narrow lane which continues as a grassy path. This leads to a bend in the road, opposite a large farmhouse, where you keep to the right.

(1) Turn left straight away at the next junction (heading north-west).

(2) At the next junction, take the concrete path on the left and head towards the sewage treatment works, a good kilometre further on. Once there, take the path on the right until you reach the end of the stormwater basin, which the path runs alongside.

(3) At the end of the basin, just as the path turns left, carry on straight ahead along the grassy track that runs alongside the woodland (on the right) and a small stream (on the left). Follow it to the entrance to the village of Diets-Heur.

(4) At the entrance to the village, first turn left then right to cross to the other side of the stream and follow the path running parallel to it. After 600 m, this path rejoins the village street. Continue straight on until you reach the junction with Rue Tierestraat (on the left), which you cross.
Immediately afterwards, leave the main road and turn right up a cobbled street which leads to the church.

(5) After the church, the cobblestones give way to concrete: follow this farm track for a good kilometre until you reach the first junction.

(2) At the junction, take the tarmac road to the left and continue to the N20 main road, which you cross straight ahead, between farm buildings.

(6) After 500 m, at the top of the road, take the grassy dirt track on the right. Follow it to the end (after passing the water tower).

(7) When you reach the village of Paifve, carry on straight ahead on the tarmac road (Voie de l’Espinette) and keep to the right into Rue du Centenaire, which you follow to the next junction (cross).

(8) Carry on straight ahead along the gravel track. This track leads onto a road (Chaussée de Brunehaut), which you follow to the left for 200 metres before turning left again onto a path leading back into the fields.

(9) Follow this for about a hundred metres and turn immediately right. This path (Sentier des Ânes) passes behind some military buildings and then rejoins the road (ignore the path coming from the left).

(10) Return to the road on the left for 50 metres, then take the path on the right which runs alongside meadows, leading to the centre of the village of Juprelle.
Turn right into Rue de Voroux.

(11) Turn left off this road after 250 m, just as it bends to the right opposite a large building (this side street is still called Rue de Voroux). After passing a housing estate, the tarmac gives way to gravel; the path then runs alongside pastures before becoming tarmac again as it enters the village of Paifve.

(12) When you reach the end of the road (Rue de Charleroi), turn left onto Chaussée Brunehaut, go round the roundabout and continue straight on to Wihogne church via Rue Lambert Dewonck (S/E).