By Road

Getting here

SOUS MONCELOT, 13, Rue du Matréau, STIGNY, Yonne, Bourgogne

We would stress that, however you choose to make the main legs of your journey to Burgundy, you will really need a car while you are here.

Note: The Continental motorways including France use a dual system of road numbers. Those which form part of a trans-continental route are given an E number, as well as a French national A number; e.g. the route south from Calais is the E15 European route, as well as the A26 French motorway route. We refer below only to the French national A route numbers.

1. If coming from the north (the Channel), we are about 5 hours drive from Calais. On leaving the Car Ferry or the Eurotunnel shuttle, take the A26 autoroute (toll motorway) heading south to Reims. As you approach Reims, the motorway briefly becomes toll-free. Continue to follow the autoroute ring road, now numbered the A4, around Reims, signposted for Troyes, Dijon and Lyon. Some distance south-east of the city, as the motorway splits, you still follow signs for Troyes, as the road number resumes as the A26. Skirt the east side of Troyes, until you come to another motorway junction, and this time take the A5 heading east, signed for Dijon, but you will leave at the very next exit. [Pick up instructions continued at [*] below map.]

2. If coming from PARIS, negotiate your way out of the capital heading south-east, and take the A5 autoroute (toll motorway) in the direction of Troyes and Dijon. [Pick up instructions continued at [*] below map]

The location of Stigny in relation to Paris and Troyes.

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Leave the A5 autoroute at junction 22, signed locally for Magnant. Take the local road south, the D443, through the small village of Magnant to Bar-sur-Seine. Just before the town centre of Bar, bear right at a small roundabout, then in the centre, at the traffic-lights, turn left onto the N71 main road, signed for Chatillon-sur-Seine. After only about 5k, watch for a sign to the right onto a minor road, the D452, signed for Polisy and a group of villages called les Riceys. Follow this winding road through les Riceys, and just to the south, fork left onto the D953, and proceed through the villages of Molesme, Villedieu and Griselles to the small town of Laignes.

In the town centre bear right onto the D965 towards Tonnerre, then after about 2k fork left onto a minor road, which strangely is again the D953. Follow it through the villages of Gigny, and Sennevoy-le-Bas. After about 2k go through a small hamlet called Jully-les-Forges, and within a few metres, watch for a hidden, narrow road turning rather tightly off to the right, signed to STIGNY!

Follow this for about 4k to the entrance to Stigny village. Just past the village sign, you come to a junction where you must stop, even though you are carrying straight on towards the centre of the village. A few metres after the STOP sign, bear right through the village “square” (triangular!), and after another few metres, bear left at the T-junction. After about 100 metres, the road out of the village turns sharply right – you go straight on, (blind to the priority of the traffic (if any), so take care), into a narrower village street. [Pick up instructions continued at [**] below]

3.If coming from the south (Beaune), take the A6 autoroute (toll motorway) heading north-west towards Auxerre and Paris. Leave at Junction 23 and head north along the D980, through Semur-en-Auxois to Montbard. Follow the signs through Montbard town for Tonnerre (D905). Initially alongside the Burgundy canal, proceed for about 20k to Nuits-sur-Armancon. At the edge of this small town, turn right across a bridge over the railway, then after about 400 metres take a sharp right turn, signed for Ravières.

Proceed for about 1k, partly along a tree-lined road, then over the canal, bearing left past a small restaurant, Tante Lisette. Fork left a few metres after the restaurant, following the canal on your left. At the next junction in about 200 metres, turn left, passing the “lavoir” (the village wash-house) on your right, then immediately over the canal again, the road taking a tight right hand turn. Follow the canal for about 500 metres, then bend right, crossing over the canal again! With the canal now on your left, proceed for almost 1k then turn off to the right, signed to STIGNY!

Climb by means of a couple of hair-pin bends, with the canal now below you on your left. The road levels off and after about 2k you reach a junction, where you turn right, and in about 200 metres you come to the Stigny village sign. Proceed into the village and at a T junction, as the main road through the village turns left, you turn right, into a narrower village street. [Continue at [**] below]

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Follow this for 50 metres to a tight T-junction, where you turn right. This road is Rue du Matréau, which in just 15 metres turns sharply left, with open fields on your right and our property on the left, first no.11, where we live, then next door no.13, Sous-Moncelot, where you will stay Bienvenue! On arrival, check in with us at no.11.

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