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Start from the car park of the Parc des Dolines de Limère, located about a hundred metres from La Petite Mérie (in the commune of Saint-Cyr-en-Val). At the roundabout on the D2020, follow signs for “Parc Départemental Les Dolines de Limère”.
(S/E) Take the compacted path that starts at the information sign for “Les Dolines de Limère”.
Leave the paved path and take the first forest track on the left.
(1) Turn right when you come to a lovely cross-country forest lane (under the power line) shortly after passing through the gate marking the park boundary. Continue straight ahead in a north-westerly direction, ignoring any side paths.
(2) Turn left at the fork (sign for military land). Follow the boundary of the military land, clearly marked on the right-hand side: where there is no fence, the path itself marks the boundary of the military land.
Continue straight on until you reach the Chemin des Bois de Sainte-Croix, turn right onto it, then leave it by turning left after about a hundred metres. This path, which follows the boundary of the Villiers estate on your left, turns left, then right when it meets the cross-path known as the “Fossé de Baule”, which you will follow westwards.
(3) Turn left onto a cross-path known as the "Chemin d'Yvoy", heading south-west and then due south through the Bois du Télégraphe.
(4) The path turns sharply right, moving away from the estate, shortly after crossing a cross-country path. Follow it until you reach a T-junction, then turn left.
(5) Continue southwards. The path turns sharply left to join the Route de Saint-Cyr. Turn left onto the Route de Saint-Cyr at the sign for "La Saugerie Brelandière", then right after 200m, onto the first forest track.
(6) The lovely lane runs partly through open countryside at first, then crosses a wood. Turn right opposite the “Petit Moulin”,
(7) Continue straight on along the Chemin d’Yvoy. This meets a hard-surfaced track as it approaches the Route de Marcilly.
(8) Turn left onto the hard-packed track, which forms a hairpin bend to cross a cultivated area. Go round the Villarceau farm on the left and continue straight on.
(9) Leave this straight track shortly after it enters the woods and take a forest path at a right angle to the left. Turn right onto the forest track when you reach a fence and follow this long, well-marked path, ignoring any side tracks.
(10) When you reach the Route de Saint-Cyr, opposite the “Le Petit Gautray” stud farm, turn right. The road goes round the “Les Chênes Creux” estate.
Turn left onto the first local track which joins the route taken on the way out. Turn right at the crossroads. You will come to an intersection you passed on the way out.
(1) Turn left back onto the path taken at the start, passing the gate marking the boundary of the Dolines de Limère park.
Turn right towards the car park at the start of the walk (S/E).
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