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FOTHERBY TOP north-west, along the Wolds, which are here some eight miles wide; and it would be well worth while for the sake of the view over the marsh to take a little round from Louth, starting out on the Lincoln road by Thorpe Hall, the interesting home of the Bolles family, the ffytches, and, later, of some of the Tennysons. By this route you soon come to the parting of the ways to Wragby and Market Rasen, and taking the right hand road by South Elkington, the charming residence of Mr. W. Smyth, you climb up to a height of 400 feet, and taking the road to the right by North Elkington—whose church has a fine pulpit copied from one still to be seen at Tupholme Abbey, near Bardney—reach Fotherby top, from which for a couple of miles you can command as fine a view of the marsh from Grimsby to Mablethorpe as you can desire. Then leaving the height you can go eastward by North Ormsby, and, joining the Grimsby-and-Louth road at Utterby, run back to Louth. All approaches to Louth are rendered beautiful by the splendid views you get of that marvellous spire; and as the road drops steeply into the town you will hardly know whether the approach from this northern side or from Kenwick on the south forms the most striking picture.