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Hauts-De-France
Atrecht
Bucquoy

British cemetery – The Carré des Sources loop from Bucquoy

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Bike touring routes & trails
France
Hauts-De-France
Atrecht
Bucquoy

British cemetery – The Carré des Sources loop from Bucquoy

Hard

11

riders

British cemetery – The Carré des Sources loop from Bucquoy

05:17

76.1km

550m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 21, 2026

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24.4 km

British cemetery

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fallen Britons rest here

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40.3 km

Poppy Fields

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Wonderful to drive across the fields and to overlook this vastness.
Here the poppies bloom.....

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59.1 km

The Carré des Sources

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At the beginning of the 18th century, the flow of the Crinchon (river of about twenty kilometers which flows between Bailleulmont and Saint-Nicolas before flowing into the Scarpe) is weak, irregular and its waters are of poor quality. The city of Arras needs healthy and abundant water for the inhabitants and for the drinking troughs of the cavalry barracks.

In 1723, at his request, the springs that gush out in Brétencourt, a hamlet of Rivière, were collected in a reservoir, it is a vast rectangular basin surrounded by brick walls now called "Carré des sources". Its dimensions: 33 m long, 11 m wide and 8 m deep.

The works were carried out by the Military Engineering on the orders of the king, who financed them, as recalled by a sandstone sealed in a wall: "In the year 1723, under the reign of Louis XV, the sources of the Crinchon were sought and enclosed in this basin at the expense of the king"

Le Carré des sources delivers 64 liters per second of water that is extremely fresh and remarkably clear. The stream thus formed crosses the park of the castle and joins the initial bed of the Crinchon, after a course of 500 m. The flow being capricious, the system was completed by the digging of a few artesian wells, from the end of the 18th century.

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76.1 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

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31.0 km

28.2 km

13.2 km

2.69 km

945 m

< 100 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

35.8 km

17.3 km

11.8 km

11.4 km

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Thursday 9 July

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