Alan Cleaver

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Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. I live in Cumbria, UK. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths

The spitting stone in a drystone wall.
Lakeland book of the Year winners
Boggle Lonning (also known as Seacross Lonning) near Embleton in Cumbria
Painted envelope
A handwritten letter- the address is fake
2nd Class stamp featuring a waterfall
Alan Cleaver with a copy of Leonard and Hungry Paul
On the postal path at Ambleside
The Postman's Path at Dent, Cumbria
Mural.of a squirrel on the side of a pub
Postman on the Tarbert to Rhenigidale postal path.
A funeral bier
A postman delivering mail to a woman at a cottage door
Painted envelope
An Illustrated letter
Wood violets
Alan Cleaver's diary for May 12th 2020
Etching of a wren and primroses
Cartoon of a bright yellow duck with an L plate round his neck standing by a pond which has a sign 'Deep End' sticking out of it.
Postman Jack Rukin crossing stepping stones. Picture: Post Office magazine
The Postman's Path at Ripon in Yorkshire
Alan Cleaver on the postal path at Glenridding in Cumbria
Mary Walker postwoman
Hello World. Earth from Artemis 2. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Alan Cleaver with a copy of The Postal Paths
Copies of The Postal Paths
AI generated image of a white plaque on a wall with the wording The Ghost of Love Lane
Notebooks of Alan Cleaver
Postman's Path Eskdale
Blaenau Ffestiniog
The Tan Hill Inn
Bleak landscape with blue sky
Me signing books.
Postwoman Jane Preston
A letter from another world.
Fog bound footpath
A dwarf willow being held in the fingertips
A robin
Map of the town centre of Whitehaven, Cumbria showing local place names.
Car parked on roadside with radio mast attached.
The footpath known as The Rack. Inset is Elsie Rowson in her postwoman's uniform .
Leather bound journal and fountain pen.
Billy Watson's Lonning at High Harrington in Cumbria
Painted Valentine envelope
Out in paperback on 12th March: The Postal Paths
Handwritten notebook
A hiker on a footpath with Dentdale in the background.
Illustration: Trina Schart Hyman - from Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales
The Postal Paths book
Alan says a temporary farewell.