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Huelgoat is popular with tourists
and holidaymakers due to its impressive natural setting
among the vestiges of the ancient forest that once covered
inland Brittany. Once part of royal and ducal lands, the
forest is now overseen by the French forestry commission,
the National Forests Office. It spans about 10 square
kilometres. A large replanting scheme has repaired much of
the damage sustained by the forest in storms on the 15th
–16th October 1987, when over 3 square kilometres of trees
were levelled or damaged. The
village lies on a lake created between the 16th and 18th
centuries to supply water to local silver-lead mines by
means of a 3 km (1.9 mile) leat or canal.
This page is under construction.
Please check back soon. Meanwhile, take a look at these old
postcards of Huelgoat:
Women washing their clothes in the lake
View of the Hôtel du Lac (Right) and the
trees along the wall by the village centre
View towards the bridge with the trees
that used to be alongside the lake
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