Travel Guide Lignières-Orgères

Originally, there was Lignières-la-Doucelle and Orgères-la-Roche. In 1972, the two communes unified in Lignières-Orgères. It is flax culture that Lignières takes its name and a noble family sarthois that of Doucelle. For Orgères, it is the barley culture that is involved, with the Roche referring to the mountainous territory. The village was known for its two mills, some twenty workers, its bestial merchants, but also its Saint-Ursin Creek, which winds before going to grow a river of the Orne. An ancient Saint-Ursin chapel was built on the location of a hot spring with supposedly miraculous virtues. A monastic community prospered on the site of the xiiith century in 1770. The source was the subject of an application for expropriation in 1923. In 1927, the water of Saint-Ursin was exploited in the nearby thermal city of Bagnoles de l 'Orne… without any consideration for Lignières.Today, hikers have seven hiking circuits, 3.5 km to 12.5 km, linked to the GR 22. Hikers can stop in one of the guest rooms of the Stables of Beauvais.