In the background: the Village.
In Epieds, turn to the right, and on leaving the village, take I. C. 30 on the left, which follows the left-hand side of the rive. On the other side of the river, on the hill-side, to the right, is Moucheton Castle (photo below). A road, lined with poplar-trees, leads there.
The Castle, which was used as headquarters, first by the Germans and afterwards by the Americans, dates from the 18th century. It has been carefully restored in recent times.
In the wood, to the right of the road, were ammunition shelters.
The tourist soon arrives at Brécy, where a German fifteen-inch “Bertha” gun was installed. To visit the "Bertha” platform (photo p. 66), turn to the left at the cross-roads before entering Brécy, pass under the railway-bridge, turn to the left 100 yards further on, and follow the railway towards Châtelet Wood. Rather less than a mile from the cross-roads, the wood comes down to the road; skirt it for about 300 yards, until the railway siding which branches off the main line, and along which the gun was brought to its platform, is reached.
MOUCHETON CASTLE, USED AS G.H.Q. BY THE AMERICANS.