This is especially true of the first one, which can be done entirely on virtually traffic free roads and lanes; the second also avoids arable land though there may be some mud in Elkington Woods.
There is limited parking in Church Lane, South Elkington (near the shop) where both walks begin.
Walk One is 3.5 miles long (5.5 kilometres) and Walk Two is 3.75 miles (6 kilometres), and OS Landranger maps 122 (Skegness) or Explorer 282 show both.
Refreshments are only available at the shop in South Elkington.

The walk around Acthorpe utilises permissive access to farm roads, granted for the 'Round Louth Walk', a 15 mile circular walk created several years ago.
We leave the A631 road near the site of an old brickyard at Brickyard Cottages and once on Acthorpe Top, near woods with the delightful name of Fanthorpe Nooking, there are wonderful views towards Louth (with St James' spire prominent) and then far-reaching views to the marsh beyond Fotherby develop too.
Acthorpe was a village in medieaval times but now only a farm remains.
The site is mysterious, however, because it was not mentioned in the Domesday Book (AD1086), even though its Danish style place-name seemingly pre-dates the Norman Conquest.

Records mention 'Achetorp' in the early C14th so it may previously have been regarded as part of South Elkington.
As you return to South Elkington look for the group of three memorial cedar trees (Cedrus Deodora) near the lane, a species recognised by its characteristic drooping top.
These young specimens will eventually reach 80 feet in height.

Look out too for South Elkington's war memorial; unusually proclaiming that the Great War ended in 1919!
Walk Two passes All Saints Church, South Elkington, but those only doing Walk One should give it a visit too.
At the imposing lych gate look to your right to see a Honey Locust tree (Gleditsia), a rarity in this country with huge, vicious thorns up to five inches in length.
As a reminder of Christ's crown of thorns it is sometimes known as a 'Calvary Tree'.
Of particular interest inside is the glorious chancel ceiling divided into four sections, each sub-divided into four gilded wreaths containing portraits of apostles, angels, prophets and martyrs; there are also beautiful painted surrounds to the chancel windows.
Behind the tower a small gate is dedicated to a local policeman.

The parkland surrounding Elkington dates from Victorian times when it was the fashion to plant newly discovered species.
Trees here include specimens of Coastal Redwoods native to California and Oregon, first available in Britain in the 1850s, which can live for thousands of years and grow to over 300 feet in height.

THE WALKS (Walk One): Turn right down the main road; preferably crossing over to use the pavement on the far side.
In approximately 300 yards re-cross to a signposted track which winds down past the lake in Elkington Park.
Beyond it turn left and continue to a footbridge (with a stile at either end), cross it and veer slightly right up to another stile by the road.
Cross over and follow the pavement leftwards for a few yards to a farm lane on your right; there's a 'Round Louth Walk' permissive waymark on the road sign. (Note: You can also get here along the pavement beside the main road, then turn left!)
Follow the lane uphill passing through a farm to reach Acthorpe where you should turn left at the public road.
In just over a mile this leads back to South Elkington.
To conclude your walk stroll along Church Lane to see the church, you will be doing this anyway if you are tackling

Walk Two.

Walk Two: Walk away from the main road.
At the church go through the lych gate bearing right behind the tower to exit near a pond.
Walk round it (in either direction) to a footpath sign near Church Farm to proceed across the front of the farmhouse.
From a stile keep forward in a meadow between grassy knolls and join a track through woods at a field gate on your right.
When the track goes left keep forward on a grassy headland by a hedge to two metal bridle gates, continue to a third gate and then turn right on a track to the road.
Go left for 300 yards and then left again along a signed track to a junction at a 3-way footpath sign near two whalebones.
Now bear left through woodland.
At the second footpath sign (near a seat) turn right up an estate road.
At the top, where the road bears left, are magnificent views towards Tathwell and to the Bluestone Heath road.
When the road bears right keep forward on grass to a stile then walk downhill across the park with views ahead to Acthorpe Top on Walk One.
Turn right at the bottom alongside a fence until you can take a footpath going right past the end of the lake.
A track now winds up to the road.
Go left back to the start.