The hills of Dracy

Car park on the Grande Rue in front of the town hall.

(D/A) With your back to the town hall, turn right into the Grande Rue. Follow it and cross the level crossing. Just after crossing the level crossing, turn left onto the dirt track. Go uphill until you reach a Y junction.

(1) Continue uphill to the left. You will come to a small road.

(2) Turn left. In front of the Fouets recycling centre, take the road on the right for about a hundred metres.

(3) Turn left towards Argenton. Pass Rue des Fortes Terres on the left. At the entrance to a bend in the road on the left, take a footpath on the right (electricity pole at the corner of the 2 streets). Turn left towards the well and pass between the houses (the layout of the area suggests that you are on private land). Rejoin the previously abandoned street and turn right again onto the road to find a crow's foot path.

(4) Go downhill to the left. Leave a start on the left. Pass an old pumping station. Then forget the side paths to reach the Villemorin-le-Haut estate. Shortly before Villemorin-le-Haut, turn right, cross an old sunken track and go down the dividing path between 2 fields. At the crossroads, turn right onto the track. Join a lane.

(5) Take a quick right-left across the road to get back onto a path lined with high hedges. At La Perreuse farm on your left, descend to join the D950.

(6) Turn right and keep to the right-hand shoulder, remaining very vigilant. When you reach the lane on your left signposted Champeaux, cross the D950 carefully and head towards this hamlet. Cross the railway line, cross the Ouanne and shortly after the right-angle bend, continue for approximately 100 m.

(7) Turn left and climb a fairly rough track to reach a junction of four paths with fine views on either side.

(8) Turn left. Reach a wider track descending from the right.

(9) Lean slightly to the left to take it. Pass the Moulin de la Forge Neuve. Continue down one of the branches of the Ouanne, which sometimes makes itself at home in this valley. On the left, the Château de Dracy, draped in red brick, can be seen through the foliage. Shortly before the first houses, turn right off the track. At the Stop sign, join Rue du Château and turn left, crossing carefully. Turn right onto the Grande Rue to reach the start car park (D/A).