From the Brûlé stream to the Brandifrout

Known as the de Brûlé stream upstream, the Brandifrout rises north of Bubry before flowing into the Blavet at the village of Brandifrout. Its main tributaries are the streams from the Fontaine Saint-Hervé, Locqueltas and Coëtano. This river of aquatic buttercups and water starwort is home to salmon and trout, and to a very rare shellfish, the pearl mussel, a species protected by Natura 2000.

Although modest in size, at various times the Brandifrout has supplied water to no fewer than eight mills over its 14 km length: the Rousse mill, the Perros mill, the Brétinio mill, the Coëdiquel mill, the Duc mill, the two Brûlé mills in Bubry, and the Villeneuve Jacquelot mill in Quistinic.The Brûlé mills are some of the rare flour mills still operating, producing bread flour and buckwheat.