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Follow the GR du Pays, several accessible fords, others private. Three mills visible which no longer have their wheels, further on you arrive at Évrunes. It is part of the great loop of the Vendée bocage.

Beautiful view from the bridge over the Sèvre and the hamlet of "Vallée de Torfou". From the latter you can see the old tannery on the riverbank, and glimpse the church and some elements of the castle higher up.

Magnificent site with this restored watermill, whose wheel still turns. I don't know if it's the case all year round, but when I was there (mid-May) you could easily cross the river using the footbridge.

The chapel of Saint-Julien-le-Martyr existed in the Valley from the 15th century. On an old parchment dating back to the year 1436, it is written, in fact, that "near the bridges of Tiffauges, however in the lower parish of Torfou" is a chapel that the inhabitants "have newly built and erected, offered, for cause of devotion, in honor of God, of the blessed Mary his Mother, and of Saint Julien the Martyr". Two centuries later, in the year 1607, the accounts of the Fabrique de Torfou mention, among other expenses, a sum of "twenty-four sols" disbursed by it for the payment of "windows put in the chapel of the bridge of the Rinière*". Of this ancient building burned down by the Blues in 1791, only the walls remain. https://connaissancedetorfou.fr/index.php/la-commune-de-torfou/torfou-histoire/16-des-chapelles-meconnues-a-torfou

Attested from the beginning of the 18th century, the Torfou mill was still operating in 1888. It had a single waterway and 3 fulling pots driven by a bucket wheel, with a power of 1 to 2 horses. Fulling consisted of beating with heavy mallets, the woolen cloths placed in a tank filled with water and clay (degreasing). The building was restored by the associations "la Perche Dorée" and "Torfou Nature et Sentiers".

With the castle and the meeting of the Crûme and the Sèvre Nantaise, this small valley is full of fantastic landscapes to explore.

A dam located on the Sevre Nantaise and which offers a superb view.

A majestic tree !!! several hundred years old!