Chicory loop

Starting from Jacques Vernier Park in Douai, the route takes you through the Clochette mining town listed as a UNESCO heritage site, crosses the Scarpe in Lallaing and enters the westernmost part of the Scarpe Escault Regional Park. It’s hard to avoid a chicory break in Orchies where it has been produced by the Leroux company since 1858. After the paved section of a few hundred meters just outside Orchies, the return to Douai will take you through the Bois de Flines les Raches, not far from an active (marine) sand quarry, and along the Escarpelle spoil tip from which you can see the headframe of pit n°9, the last coal mining site in the Nord department.