Servant

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

Step 1 : Go down the lane to the left of the post office, which bends to the right and then to the left. After the pond, go up and at the fork, turn right towards Les Paillers. Cross the hamlet and, at the exit, take the tarmac road opposite. After 500 m, turn right at the fork, then straight ahead through the Bois de la Faye to the D2144. Cross the road and continue on the track opposite, between the guardrails. At the T-junction, turn left through the village of Les Querriaux to the end of the climb.

Step 2 : Take the tarmac track to the right. At the T-junction, turn right and stay on this track until you reach a crossroads. Continue right to a T-junction in the woods. Go right downhill and straight on to a house (Les Deux-Forts). Follow the tarmac road for 100 m and, at the road, take the downhill path to the left. Take a footbridge, then cross a ford (or footbridge) and head uphill into the forest. At a fork, turn right out of the woods and continue along a grassy path to Saugère. Cross the hamlet and continue on the small road opposite to a crossroads. Turn right (pond) and climb the road to the crossroads in the hamlet of Les Pignons. Take the left-hand track. At the crossroads at Le Buisson (cross) (wide view of the Combrailles and, in the distance, the Chaîne des Puys), go straight ahead, past Le Creux La Terre and, at the entrance to Servant, down the street on the right (Rue des Rochers) to the road.

Step 3 : Cross the road and go straight ahead (wooden cross) on a wide dirt track to a road (D507) (iron cross). Turn right twice (towards Favodon) and after 150 m, turn right onto a dirt track alongside a wood. At the road, turn right, then, at the fork, climb the tarmac track and continue to a road. Follow the road to the left, cross the hamlet of Fontabourgnon and continue for 200 m. Follow the road to the right and pass the houses (hameau des Cros). Arched well on the left. After the well, continue on the road for another 100 m.

Step 4 : Leave the road (before a small house on the left) and turn right onto a scrubby track and then a steep path through the forest. Cross a stream and climb left to a road. Turn left and follow it to the hamlet of Les Arbres. Go straight ahead and at Malmouche, turn right, then after 100 m (information table and view of Menat) down a track to the right. At the road, turn left onto the D2144. Cross over to the Menat road. Climb up to the church (Cluniac site, Romanesque church and cloisters) and return to the starting point.

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