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Devil's Hole to Trinity Walk

Author - Peter Schofield

Length - 7.0 miles / 11.4 km

Ascent - 0 feet / 0 metres

Grade - moderate

This walk links walk 5002 to walk 5004, and includes further sections of the north coast.

Take route 7 bus from St.Helier to the start point at Devil's Hole. Walk down to the coastal footpath and continue east. At the foot of the Vallee des Mouriers just below a small reservoir, continue uphill along the clear path until the car park at Sorel is reached. Here, it is worth diverting left on to the headland at Sorel for the superb view.

Retrace your steps to the car park. At this point, there is a relatively uninteresting section bypassing the Ronez quarry which is on your left and which requires about 1.5 km of road walking. Continue straight up the car park access road. Turn left at the top, passing the quarry entrance and offices and continue for approximately 1km until the C101 road to St.John's goes off right. Keep straight on taking the road ahead for about 200m and just before the foot of the hill, turn sharp left down a track leading to a waste disposal site below a quarry.

From this unpromising start, the coastal path is shortly waymarked up to the right and offers superb walking to Fremont Point where there are stunning views over Bonne Nuit and Gifford Bays.

Continue steeply down hill to reach a road near some apartments at Bonne Nuit Bay. Turn left on the road and follow it down past the small harbour and up the other side. At this point, bus 4 will take you back to St.Helier if you wish to end the walk.

To continue the walk, carry on up the road for approx. 300m to the entrance to a hotel where the route is waymarked left. Continue past the hotel buildings and after a further 500m, a waymark offers the choice between the lower and upper paths. You can take either as both rejoin about 1.5K further on, near La Belle Hougue. Once again, there are excellent panoramic views from the cliff top.

From La Belle Hougue the path continues its undulating way to Le Petit Port, where there is a ruined cottage and a memorial to a World War 2 commando raid. Turn right up the track following the stream up through a wooded valley until a junction is reached where the track doubles back. The coastal path to Bouley Bay is waymarked up hill to the left.

Follow the coastal path for about 50m and then branch off to the right up a less well defined path. This continues up the stream and finally leaves the wood, crossing a rough pasture where there were some beehives at the time of writing. Follow the path up the hill until a sunken lane with a fence on the right is reached. Continue up the lane until a road is reached at a small hamlet.

Turn right and then immediately left down the "Route de Cambrai", a green lane. Continue down the lane until a cross road is reached with a "dead end" sign opposite. Turn left and after 100m, turn right at a T-junction. Continue down the road to the "Le Vescomte" monument.

Take the second left (A8 road) at this point. After 300m, turn right at a T-junction by Trinity Parish Hall. Continue 200m to the next T-junction at Trinity Church, where both walk J04 starts and bus route 4 goes to St.Helier. If you have to wait for the bus, the "Trinity Arms" pub offers refreshment 100m up the road to the left towards St.Martin.

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