Saint-Laurent-Blangy: Water, Routes and Culture

Saint-Laurent-Blangy offers several specific themes to help you plan your trip: routes by the water, orienteering, whitewater activities, and natural and memorial sites. If you are looking for a hotel for your stay, these highlights can help you organise your interests. The information ranges from routes with specified distances to named heritage sites. This can help you decide which themes matter to you when choosing where to stay.

Routes by the water and in Parc Val de Scarpe

Saint-Laurent-Blangy’s cycling network includes a 2.9-kilometre stretch of towpath along the waterways. Parc Val de Scarpe has 700 metres of greenways. At 2.9 kilometres and 700 metres, these are two different distances: the towpath stretch is almost four times as long as the park’s greenways. As a starting point, you can distinguish between a longer route along the water and a shorter greenway route in the named park.

Orienteering and whitewater activities

The municipality has three orienteering courses. One course in the parks of Immercourt and du Chevalier has 15 checkpoints. The number of courses gives an overview of what Saint-Laurent-Blangy has to offer, while the checkpoints provide more detail about the named park course. Parc d’Immercourt and Parc du Chevalier connect two interests: they are part of the Grand Marais and are also the locations of this orienteering course.

Riverside Park offers rafting on an artificial river and hydrospeed on its whitewater course. The named discipline gives you a specific point of comparison when choosing activities: rafting is associated with the artificial river, and hydrospeed with the whitewater course. This lets you distinguish between the two activities by discipline and course type.

Natural surroundings and heritage

The Grand Marais encompasses Parc d’Immercourt, Parc du Chevalier and the meadows of Hervin. The two parks also feature in the orienteering course; the meadows of Hervin complete the three named components of this natural area. If you include nature and outdoor activities in your trip plans, the parks’ names offer a shared point of reference, without conflating the two themes.

The Domaine de Vaudry-Fontaine offers a cultural perspective and is classified as a picturesque site. The monumental Fontaine is an emblematic feature of the estate. This gives you two related points of interest: the classified site and the Fontaine as its standout feature.

Memorial sites in Saint-Laurent-Blangy

Saint-Laurent-Blangy is home to the Hervin Farm British Cemetery and Bailleul Road West Cemetery. There is also the German necropolis, where 31,939 soldiers now rest, including 24,870 in a communal grave. The necropolis is also included in the regional “Chemins de la Mémoire 14-18” routes. For travellers interested in memorial sites, there are two named cemeteries to visit, as well as a necropolis with a specific number of those buried there and a place on a regional route.

Discover more destinations: Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Dennebroeucq, Ligny-Sur-Canche, Isbergues, Grenay, Baincthun, Beugny, Gauchin-Verloingt.

For the broader travel overview: Pas-De-Calais.