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To cross the Ghent-Ostend Canal, pedestrians are dependent on the bridges for car traffic: between Bellembrug and the bridge on Veldestraat in Merendree (from here just past the Schipdonksluis) there is only this one, the Hansbekebrug.

Ideal for a family bike ride

Mariahove Castle is a castle in the Belgian village of Bellem. The castle is located southeast of the village center along Mariahovelaan, the road to Hansbeke. Source Wikipedia

Within the partially walled grounds of the church, on the street side, stands the Chapel of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows with a crypt, built around 1854 by Count Leopold 1st Sergeant d’Hendecourt, designed by architect de Limbourg. A staircase with an iron railing between bluestone pinnacles leads to the chapel, a brick neo-Gothic chapel with a bluestone west gable and a three-sided chancel under a slate roof. The pointed arch doorway features archivolts. The gable is embellished with crockets. The painted brick side walls are punctuated by buttresses of cut bluestone and a pointed arch window with iron glazing bars. The white-plastered interior is covered with a pointed arch. A tombstone lies in front of the neo-Gothic bluestone altar. White-painted bas-reliefs hang on the walls.

Beautiful farm with outbuildings. On the columns next to the gate you will find a coat of arms with the inscription Endurer pour durer.

Strikingly beautiful pump that you can find on the square in front of the church.

Since the end of December 2001, the two-and-a-half-meter-high cast-iron water pump has once again graced the village center of Bellem. After the exceptionally dry summer of 1858, Mrs. Jeanne De Naeyer-Van Caeneghem proposed donating a water pump to the people of Bellem. The council of the time naturally agreed. Thanks to the village pump, the people of Bellem received clean, uncontaminated water. Around 1900, the pump was removed from the village square and found a new location in the Mariahove estate. The municipal council decided to restore the pump and move it back to its original location, near the lime trees near the church.

Nice bike path with a bridge.