Presentation
Bike ride to discover Ors, Catillon-sur-Sambre, Rejet-de-Beaulieu and the Sambre.
Type : Loop
Max altitude : 160m
The Memorial step by step
Departure from the Maison Forestière d’Ors car park.
(D/A) Leave the car park and take the first path on the right, pass the Notre-Dame de Bonsecours watercourse and discover the Chapel of the Ermitage Notre-Dame de Bonsecours. With your back to it, take the path on the left, continue a little straight then follow the PR® path on the right and exit the forest.
(1) Follow Rue d'Ouies on the right, pass the railway line, continue until the small bridge over the Ruisseau de l'Ermitage.
(2) Continue on this main road, ignore a path on the right then another on the left
(3) At the fork, follow left, Rue d'Ouies and always go straight on to Ors.
(4) Turn right, Rue du Capitaine d'Arche, D160, pass in front of the church, ignore two paths on the right and reach a crow's foot at Petit Gard.
(5) Turn left and go straight on the D160, pass La Malmaison, continue Route du Gard until the Route Nationale.
(6) Turn left onto Route Nationale, ignore two paths on the right and reach Rue de la Sambre on the right.
(7) Follow this, you are on the GR® 122 and join the 5th street on the right.
(8) Turn right, at the T, continue left on the GR® 122 up to hill 151, at a road fork.
(9) Turn left on the GR® 122 towards the Fontaine à Cailloux, go straight on to the Ruisseau de Gourgouche.
(10) Then turn left towards the towpath and the lock keeper's house of Rejet-de-Beaulieu, pass a sewage treatment plant on your left.
(11) Cross to the other side of the Sambre and take the towpath on the left and join Avenue de La Groise in Catillon-sur-Sambre.
(12) Turn left and immediately take the Sambre towpath on the GR® 122 to the right, pass the old castle mound of Ors on your left and continue as far as Rue de Landrecies.
(13) Cross it and continue opposite on the towpath until you reach a footbridge and a small cemetery on the left.
(14) Leave the GR® 122 Chemin de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle and take the PR® path on the left, pass the military cemetery on your left, and continue to Ruisseau de l'Ermitage. Turn left and arrive at Rue d'Ouies.
(2) Follow the path in the opposite direction, straight on the PR® to the chapel and the Notre-Dame de l'Ermitage Source and reach the forest house (D/A).
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Cartographic references
IGN map: 2706OT, 2707O