Location

The village

Saint Benoit du Sault is a medieval village in central France, just north of the Limousin region, and 300km south of Paris. It lies between Chateauroux and Limoges in the département of the Indre.

The Old Coach House

The house is situated in the old town on a promontory overlooking the valley of the Portefeuille.

Getting there

By car: St Benoit is about six and a half hours’ drive from Calais. The village lies to the west of the A20 motorway, between Chateauroux and Limoges.

By plane: The village is within easy reach of Limoges’s Bellegarde airport (50 minutes’ drive).  Flybe has services to Limoges from Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Southampton.  Ryanair flies there from Stansted, Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds and East Midlands.  Other French airports worth considering are: Poitiers (1hr 30m drive) with Ryanair; Orleans (2hr 10 mins) with Flybe; Bergerac (2hr 45 mins) with Flybe or Ryanair; La Rochelle (3hr 20 mins) with Easyjet.

By train: Take the Eurostar from London St Pancras to Lille Europe and pick up a TGV to Poitiers. There is a car rental office at the station. A few trains depart daily from Paris Austerlitz to Argenton sur Creuse (20 minutes from St Benoit). Limoges has more trains per day from Paris, as may Chateauroux, but they are further away than Argenton (50 and 35 minutes respectively).

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