Start from Place Jeanne Painel in Hambye.
YellowPR®® signposts
(S/E) Leave the car park, with your back to the Post Office, and turn right onto Ruelle aux Sorciers. Take a path on the left which leads down towards the River Hambyotte. When you reach a road, turn right and follow it to the end.
(1) When you reach Rue de la Chaussée, turn left and walk 300 m before turning left between Nos. 23 and 25 onto Chemin du Mont Cauvet. Follow this path until you reach a left-hand bend (barrier).
(2) Leave the track by continuing straight on along the path that continues from it. At the junction with another path, turn right. Ignore the access road to La Pitoiserie on the left and continue to the right until you reach the Route du Hamel Marie.
(3) Turn left and walk 200 metres before taking a path on the right heading west. Follow it to the left. At the crossroads where roads and paths meet, turn right.
(4) Ignore a path on the right and, 20 m further on, turn left towards the south-west. The path leads to Mauny and then ends at the D398 county road.
(5) Turn left onto the road towards the Moulin de Mauny. Cross the River Sienne and continue along the road heading south-south-west.
(6) Before reaching Vauvenard, turn left onto a footpath and follow it all the way. Continue along the road to the left towards Les Bretonnières. At the T-junction of the footpaths, turn right and carry on until you reach the road.
Yellow and red markings onthe GR®® de Pays trail “In the footsteps of the bell founders”
Yellow markings onthe PR®®
(7) Turn left and keep left at Haut Bosq, then head straight on along a path. Continue along this path until you reach a junction of paths.
(8) Take the path furthest to the right, which curves sharply. Keep to the right and, at the junction, turn left towards the east to emerge onto the D198.
(9) Turn left. Walk past the church on your left, with the cemetery at La Haye Comtesse, and continue along this road until you reach the D51.
(10) Follow it to the left for 100 m and turn left, then very quickly take a path on the right which continues in line with the road. Follow the path round a hairpin bend to the right, then another to the left, to descend towards the river.
(11) Cross the Sienne for a second time via a footbridge. Carry on and ignore a path leading off to the left via some steps, then continue along the road as it continues.
Before the bridge and after the Auberge de l’Abbaye, take the D51 road to the left and you’ll arrive at the entrance to the Abbey.
(12) Before the abbey entrance, continue along the road that runs alongside the abbey, then take the path that circles the abbey and continue along the Chemin de la Croix Martin until it ends at the D198.
(13) Turn left to cross the D51 and carry on straight ahead, heading north-west, then north. Take the path on the left which crosses the Hambyotte. At the Y-junction, turn right. Cross the river once more.
(14) Carry on to the left and join the D51. Follow it to the left for about 200 m, then continue left onto the Route de la Gare. After 50 m, turn right onto the Chemin des Muletiers.
(15) Enter Hambye by continuing along the road to the left. At the crossroads, Place Jeanne Painel is on the left (S/E).