A mile more brings us to the two churches of _Covenham_, within a quarter of a mile of each other, and both locked. Covenham _St. Mary_ seems to be built of a hard chalk. There are mason-marks high up on each pilaster of the porch. The other church, of _St. Bartholomew_, was once a cruciform building. It is made of the same white material, but the tower is now covered with Welsh slate, and one transept is gone. The fonts in both churches are good. That in St. Mary’s is, for beauty of design and boldness of execution, the best in the neighbourhood, but they do not compare for beauty and size with those in the Fen churches, which are lofty and set on wide octagonal basements of three or four steps. Here, the brass to Sir John Skipwyth, who died at, or in the year of, Agincourt, 1415, is in exceptionally good condition. He is armed and has both the long dagger and sword, the latter suspended from his left arm by a strap. The tail of the lion on which he stands is erect between the leg of the knight and his sword. The rest of the route by _Fulston_, _Tetney_ and _Humberston_ to Grimsby is not of any interest until we come to _Clee_, which, with its interesting Saxon church tower, we have already described. [Sidenote: A ROMAN ‘HOG’S BACK’] In the Wold country the main roads usually run along the ridges of the Wolds and afford views on either side. One of the best of these, “Hog’s Back” views is obtained from one of the byways which starts from the Spilsby and Alford road at the top of Milescross hill, and runs south till it reaches Gunby. It skirts the wooded belt of the Well Vale estate, and drops into the village of _Ulceby_ which, like most of the tiny Wold villages, lies on the bank of a small stream in a wooded hollow, where the church and farm and a few cottages form a pleasing picture of rural retirement.