POSTAL PATHS

A fascinating exploration of routes trod by generations of rural postmen and women lovingly told and lively JACK CORNISH author of The Lost Paths A delightful exploration of one of our most important cultural figures in the community the postman Postal Paths journeys around the UK unearthing forgotten stories You will never look at a postman in the same way again REBECCA SMITH author of Rural The Lives of the Working Class Countryside Charming Cleaver brings to the life the lives of those who served their communities KIRAN SIDHU author of I Can Hear The Cuckoo Seeing the hills the crofts villages and ruins only tells half the story The people who worked walked lived and died here are the other half Postal paths span the length and breadth of Britain from the furthermost corners of the Outer Hebrides to the isolated communities clinging to the cliffs of the Rame Peninsula in south east Cornwall For over 200 years postmen and women have delivered post to homes across Britain on foot no matter how remote A chance remark by a farmer about a Postman s Path led Alan Cleaver on a quest to discover more about this network of lanes short cuts and footpaths in the British landscape From the rolling fells of Cumbria to Kent s shi