A wander through Cumbria's ancient landscape

The Postal Paths:  A book looking at the routes walked by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. The book is published by Monoray and available from all bookshops. 

A LAKE DISTRICT CHRISTMAS: An anthology of stories, poems, ballads, traditions and memories of Christmas in the Lake District and rural Cumbria in days gone by. Please support your local shop if you wish to buy one but it is also available online from Inspired By Lakeland.

Corpse Roads of Cumbria:  Corpse roads were the paths used in medieval times  to carry the dead from  remote parishes to the 'mother church'. This could be a distance of just a couple of miles or as many as twenty.  As parishes won the right to bury their dead locally, corpse roads became redundant but many of the paths still survive along with coffin rests, wayside crosses  or chapels of ease that marked the route. This book details 15 or so corpse roads in Cumbria and tells the story behind them, along with some of the superstitions and traditions that surrounded funerals in the past. Corpse Roads of Cumbria is now out of print but available from second-hand bookshops.

Get Lost.  Parson’s Passage, Bloody Bones Lane, Ticklebelly Alley, Lovers Lonning, Giggle Alley... Cumbria has some wonderful paths but not all of them appear on maps; many are only known to local villagers. Get Lost details where these ancient tracks can be found and reveals the stories behind them. Now out of print but available from second-hand bookshops.