Wending your way along the roads of the Bocage, surrounded by hedgerows, meadows and orchards, discover another side of Normandy’s heritage: its iron forges and mines.
- 34 km
On the route :
Dompierre
The Fours de la Butte Rouge (iron ore calcination furnace site) and the Maison du Fer (iron museum with permanent exhibition)
Champsecret
The Forges de Varenne: Site of an iron foundry (16th to 19th centuries) : Blast furnace, refining foundries, cutting shed, foundry-workers’ cottages…
La Ferrière aux Etangs
Mine and mining town (in Le Gué Plat).
Saint Clair de Halouze
Mine surface and the Fours de la Bocagerie foundry (in Le Châtellier).