Postman Pat North Yorkshire. Greendale is a large, busy village situated in the heart of the Cumbrian countryside. Running through the centre of the village is the High Street, home to Mrs Goggins' Post Office and shop, an unofficial meeting house for the residents. Located on the edge of the village is the railway station, home to the Greendale Rocket. Nisha Bains runs a popular café there with Sara while her husband Ajay runs a regular schedule on the Greendale Rocket to the nearby town of Pencaster. In the original series (1 and 2), Greendale consisted of windy and narrow country roads
John Cunliffe (author) tall child for his age, and was bullied at school because of this. He attended Colne Grammar School, and later lived in Kendal, Westmorland; where the small towns and villages of that area would provide the inspiration for his most famous character, Postman Pat. 'Greendale', where the character and series is set, is based on the valley of Longsleddale, near Kendal. Cunliffe worked for many years as a librarian, and also as a teacher at Castle Park Primary School. He gave up teaching in 1988 in order to write new episodes for a new series of Postman Pat. Cunliffe was