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Yser Tower (IJzertoren) – Ypres Canal loop from Torhout
RoutesRoad cycling routesBelgiumFlandersWest FlandersBrugesTorhout
Yser Tower (IJzertoren) – Ypres Canal loop from Torhout
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Yser Tower (IJzertoren) – Ypres Canal loop from Torhout
04:54
104km
210m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 17, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 27.6 km for 102 m
Waypoints
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Start point
Train Station
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8.23 km
Ruidenberg
Highlight • Climb
Nice slope to add to your workout.
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8.37 km
Ruidenberg West
Highlight (Segment) • Viewpoint
13.4 km
Domeinbossen van Koekelare
Forest
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25.9 km
Yser Tower and Pax Gate, Diksmuide
Highlight • Monument
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26.7 km
Diksmuide Market Square
Highlight • Historical Site
The market of Diksmuide is a lively and historic place in the center of the city. On the Grote Markt in Diksmuide, merchants have been offering their merchandise at the weekly Monday market since the thirteenth century. Now there is also the farmer's market on Saturday afternoon, where local producers sell their delicious farm products in an atmospheric market.
Diksmuide is also known as the Butter City. The Boterhalle and the Boter- en Kaasfeesten on Whit Monday bear witness to this. The statue 'Het Manneke uit de Mane' is the symbol of Flemish humor that is guarded by the 'Orde van het Manneke', while the statue of General-Baron Jacques reminds us of the Battle of Diksmuide in 1914.
The center of Diksmuide received a thorough facelift. The aim of the project was to make the center of Diksmuide more attractive. The Grote Markt is now a pleasant square. The trees, benches and water elements make it really cozy.
Diksmuide is also known as the Butter City. The Boterhalle and the Boter- en Kaasfeesten on Whit Monday bear witness to this. The statue 'Het Manneke uit de Mane' is the symbol of Flemish humor that is guarded by the 'Orde van het Manneke', while the statue of General-Baron Jacques reminds us of the Battle of Diksmuide in 1914.
The center of Diksmuide received a thorough facelift. The aim of the project was to make the center of Diksmuide more attractive. The Grote Markt is now a pleasant square. The trees, benches and water elements make it really cozy.
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27.6 km
Yser Tower (IJzertoren)
Highlight • Monument
The first Yser Tower was inaugurated in 1930 as a memorial for the Flemish soldiers who lost their lives in the front region. During the Second World War the site became a backdrop for collaboration. The Yser Tower was detonated during an attack in 1946. A new tower was built from the ruins in 1965. The tower has housed a museum for several years now.
The renovated Museum aan de IJzer in the IJzertoren tells the story of the Belgian-German front during the First World War through the stories of soldiers, refugees and civilians on both sides of the front. The museum does not deliver a non-binding message, but a clear order: Never again war! In addition, the political consequences of this war, which culminate in the Flemish struggle for emancipation, are also explained. In addition to the view over the former Yser Front, you can also enjoy a beautiful panorama over Diksmuide and the Westhoek on top of the 84-meter-high tower.
Source: flandersfields.be/nl/doen/museum-aan-de-ijzer
The renovated Museum aan de IJzer in the IJzertoren tells the story of the Belgian-German front during the First World War through the stories of soldiers, refugees and civilians on both sides of the front. The museum does not deliver a non-binding message, but a clear order: Never again war! In addition, the political consequences of this war, which culminate in the Flemish struggle for emancipation, are also explained. In addition to the view over the former Yser Front, you can also enjoy a beautiful panorama over Diksmuide and the Westhoek on top of the 84-meter-high tower.
Source: flandersfields.be/nl/doen/museum-aan-de-ijzer
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71.9 km
Ypres Canal
Highlight • River
beautiful cycle path along a route steeped in history
The Ypres Canal runs for 14 kilometers from Ypres to the Knokke Bridge, where the canal flows into the Yser. Even if the canal looks like it was drawn with a ruler: to the left and right of the bank you will find a landscape that cannot be squeezed into any geometric shapes.
Old towpaths lead you almost at water level, here you can encounter remarkable fauna and flora.
The Ypres Canal runs for 14 kilometers from Ypres to the Knokke Bridge, where the canal flows into the Yser. Even if the canal looks like it was drawn with a ruler: to the left and right of the bank you will find a landscape that cannot be squeezed into any geometric shapes.
Old towpaths lead you almost at water level, here you can encounter remarkable fauna and flora.
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85.9 km
Couchez Mill
Highlight • Monument
Couchezmolen-Molenmuseum is a museum in Zarren. Stop at Couchezmolen-Mill Museum and enjoy a wonderful time away in Zarren.
The Couchez mill, also called the white mill because of its whitewashed hull, is a stone windmill in Zarren, a sub-municipality of the Belgian municipality of Kortemark. With a length of 25.3 m, it is one of the largest stone mills in Belgium.
The Couchez mill, also called the white mill because of its whitewashed hull, is a stone windmill in Zarren, a sub-municipality of the Belgian municipality of Kortemark. With a length of 25.3 m, it is one of the largest stone mills in Belgium.
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86.9 km
Willeput Mill
Highlight • Monument
Wooden corn windmill, type of post mill on tower house. It is located on a mill hill.
The Wullepit mill owes its name to the miller family Wullepit who operated the mill almost continuously between 1805 and 1949.
It has a long history, during which its continued existence was seriously threatened several times in the past half century.
The Wullepit mill is the oldest mill in Zarren and was built before 1639.
From 1725, the same miller lived at the Linde mill for almost fifty years: Nicolaas Decoodt.
All later millers at the Linde mill, up until the 20th century, were relatives of this Nico Decoodt. He was the operator and also the owner of the mill, Nicolaas married three times and had 9 children from these 3 marriages, of whom only four reached adulthood. Three of them would play a role in this miller's story.
In 1817, after the death of the last son-in-law and more than 45 years after the death of Nicolaas Decoodt, tenant-co-seller Pieter Wullepit became the owner.
During the First World War, the mill was destroyed to such an extent that it was impossible to build a new mill with the rubble. Millers through and through, the Wullepits thought they would not be able to make a living without a mill. While others had the rubble of the destroyed mills cleared away for good, they decided to replace their destroyed mill, especially since their son Arthur, who had returned from the war as a severely mutilated man - he lost a leg. He would have had difficulty doing other work.
Through the intervention of Alfred Ronse, a mill expert from Gistel who advocated the re-establishment of windmills after the First World War, an existing post mill was purchased in Zerkegem in 1923. The colossus was transported to Zarren by horse-drawn carriage.
Arthur Wullepit, who remained unmarried and was the actual miller, died in 1972. His brother Omer Wullepit was more of a farmer. He was born in Zarren in 1892 and died in February 1980 at the age of 88. The Weekbode wrote on 22 February 1980: "Zarren's last miller has gone with his grain to the Lord".
In 1971, the municipality of Zarren acquired the mill for one symbolic franc with the promise to restore it. Political wrangling repeatedly caused the restoration to be postponed. For a while it looked as if the mill would be transferred to the Open Air Museum in Bokrijk, or to the Bruges city walls, and even that its classification as a protected monument would be lifted. It is Wullepitmolen vzw, which - with material support from the municipality - finally carried out the necessary maintenance work in 1991 and campaigned for the Province of West Flanders to purchase the mill from the municipality in 1994.
The restoration was finally carried out between 1996 and 2000.
Since then, five volunteer millers from the Wullepitmolen vzw have been working the Wullepitmolen at least every 1st Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. from April to September (also the fourth Sunday if there is sufficient wind) and on special mill days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
In 2017, the mill was finally transferred back to the municipality of Kortemark.
Due to the deteriorated technical condition, a new restoration took place from 2021 to 2023.
Source: Molenecho’s
The Wullepit mill owes its name to the miller family Wullepit who operated the mill almost continuously between 1805 and 1949.
It has a long history, during which its continued existence was seriously threatened several times in the past half century.
The Wullepit mill is the oldest mill in Zarren and was built before 1639.
From 1725, the same miller lived at the Linde mill for almost fifty years: Nicolaas Decoodt.
All later millers at the Linde mill, up until the 20th century, were relatives of this Nico Decoodt. He was the operator and also the owner of the mill, Nicolaas married three times and had 9 children from these 3 marriages, of whom only four reached adulthood. Three of them would play a role in this miller's story.
In 1817, after the death of the last son-in-law and more than 45 years after the death of Nicolaas Decoodt, tenant-co-seller Pieter Wullepit became the owner.
During the First World War, the mill was destroyed to such an extent that it was impossible to build a new mill with the rubble. Millers through and through, the Wullepits thought they would not be able to make a living without a mill. While others had the rubble of the destroyed mills cleared away for good, they decided to replace their destroyed mill, especially since their son Arthur, who had returned from the war as a severely mutilated man - he lost a leg. He would have had difficulty doing other work.
Through the intervention of Alfred Ronse, a mill expert from Gistel who advocated the re-establishment of windmills after the First World War, an existing post mill was purchased in Zerkegem in 1923. The colossus was transported to Zarren by horse-drawn carriage.
Arthur Wullepit, who remained unmarried and was the actual miller, died in 1972. His brother Omer Wullepit was more of a farmer. He was born in Zarren in 1892 and died in February 1980 at the age of 88. The Weekbode wrote on 22 February 1980: "Zarren's last miller has gone with his grain to the Lord".
In 1971, the municipality of Zarren acquired the mill for one symbolic franc with the promise to restore it. Political wrangling repeatedly caused the restoration to be postponed. For a while it looked as if the mill would be transferred to the Open Air Museum in Bokrijk, or to the Bruges city walls, and even that its classification as a protected monument would be lifted. It is Wullepitmolen vzw, which - with material support from the municipality - finally carried out the necessary maintenance work in 1991 and campaigned for the Province of West Flanders to purchase the mill from the municipality in 1994.
The restoration was finally carried out between 1996 and 2000.
Since then, five volunteer millers from the Wullepitmolen vzw have been working the Wullepitmolen at least every 1st Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. from April to September (also the fourth Sunday if there is sufficient wind) and on special mill days from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
In 2017, the mill was finally transferred back to the municipality of Kortemark.
Due to the deteriorated technical condition, a new restoration took place from 2021 to 2023.
Source: Molenecho’s
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104 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
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84.2 km
13.9 km
4.42 km
356 m
295 m
217 m
166 m
Surfaces
64.8 km
36.8 km
1.67 km
122 m
108 m
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