(S/E) From St James’s Church, walk along Bridge Street, crossing the River Lud and start to walk uphill on Grimsby Road. (A)
(1) Continue up Grimsby Road until the ground levels, passing a new housing development on your left before reaching Fanthorpe Lane just before the garage and Petrol Station. Turn left down this quite lane and when you reach the bypass, cross with extreme care. Continue on the metalled track, then grass track and across fields until you reach a road. (B)
(2) At the road, turn left and continue past Acthorpe Farm. As you go past Linford Wood, you are at the highest point of the walk at 340 feet. Follow the road until you reach South Elkington village.
(3) Turn left at the road and follow the tarmac footpath towards Louth.
(4) Continue down the road and after passing two houses, the road rises uphill. Take the public footpath on the left towards Cow Pasture Wood. Once through the woodland (C), follow the path over the grassland, keeping the trees and hedge on your left, passing Pasture Farm to the bypass.
(5) Carefully cross the bypass, then go over the stile into the field. Cross the field with the hedge on your left and past the old buildings. Follow the track right down the drive and turn left at the road.
(6) Ignore the next road on the left and follow Westgate over the bridge and back to St James's Church, your starting point.(S/E)