It was the May Bank Holiday Weekend & I had booked the rest of the week off work, so that meant one thing: an extended trip up to the lakes. Grasmere: Green Burn Valley Horseshoe I parked up in the one remaining space in the lay-by north of Grasmere on the A591, just after lunch time on Sunday. I quickly booted up & picked up my day-pack as my first walk would be a round of the Green Burn valley, prior to me then heading to my camping spot for the night. Heading north from the layby, my route turned off the busy A591 road into the quiet, secluded farmstead of Town Head. The footpath then went through some fields, over a small stone bridge then across another field before getting back on the road just before it ended and the paths began. Heading through the wooden gate which marked the boundary of the Green Burn valley, the paths onwards forked almost immediately. A wide, well trodden path headed along the bottom of the valley parallel to the beck. A second, narrower path t