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Kendal is a town in Cumbria, England. The second largest town of its county, it is the largest town in the district of South Lakeland and the historic county boundaries of Westmorland. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 11 KB) Summary Description: A blank map of the United Kingdom, with country outline and coastline; contact the author for help with modifications or add-ons Source: Reference map provided by Demis Mapper 6 Date: 2006-21-06 Author: User...
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South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
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The LA postcode area, also known as the Lancaster postcode area[1], is a group of postal districts around Ambleside, Askam-in-Furness, Barrow-in-Furness, Broughton-in-Furness, Carnforth, Coniston, Dalton-in-Furness, Grange-over-Sands, Kendal, Kirkby-in-Furness, Lancaster, Millom, Milnthorpe, Morecambe, Sedbergh, Ulverston and Windermere in...
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Cumbria Constabulary is the Home Office police force in England covering the county of Cumbria. ...
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Creation 1983 MP Tim Farron Party Liberal Democrat Type House of Commons County Cumbria EP constituency North West England Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ...
South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. ...
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Westmorland (formerly also spelt Westmoreland, an even older spelling is Westmerland) is an area of north west England and one of the 39 historic counties of England. ...
Kendal is today known largely a centre for tourism and as the home of Kendal mint cake. Its buildings constructed with the local grey limestone have earned it the nickname the Auld Grey Town. Tourists on Oʻahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. ...
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Kendal stands on the River Kent, surrounded by low hills. It is just outside the Lake District National Park, and is often regarded as being part of the Lake District itself. Although a relatively small town, it is an important commercial centre for a wide area thanks to its rural location. The River Kent is a short river in the county of Cumbria in England. ...
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Kendal railway station is situated on the Windermere Branch Line and gives connections to Windermere railway station to the north, and Oxenholme Lake District railway station (on the West Coast Main Line) and Lancaster railway station to the south. Kendal is around 8 miles (12 km) from the M6 motorway, and is bypassed on the west by the A591 road, linking it to Windermere, Keswick and the A590, as well as being the terminus of the A65 road to Kirkby Lonsdale and a destination on the A6 road to Penrith. Kendal railway station is a railway station in Kendal in Cumbria. ...
The Windermere Branch Line is the railway line from Oxenholme to Kendal and Windermere, originally part of the Kendal and Windermere Railway. ...
Windermere railway station is the railway station that serves Windermere in Cumbria. ...
Oxenholme Lake District railway station. ...
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Lancaster railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Lancaster in Lancashire. ...
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The A591 is a major road in Cumbria, in the North-west of England. ...
Windermere or close variations is a name used in a number of places, including: // Bodies of water Windermere, lake, in the Lake District, county of Cumbria, the largest lake in England See also Lake Windermere Windermere Basin, bay, Ontario, Canada (43°1556N 79°4647W) Towns and...
The Moot Hall in the centre of Keswick. ...
The A590 is a trunk road in southern Cumbria, in the north-west of England, running from M6 junction 36, to the town of Barrow-in-Furness. ...
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Kirkby Lonsdale is a town in Cumbria, UK, on the River Lune. ...
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The Lancaster Canal was built as far as Kendal in 1819, but the northern section was rendered unnavigable by the construction of the M6. Part of this section was also drained and filled in to prevent leakage, and the course of the canal through Kendal has now been developed. A campaign is currently underway to restore the canal as far as Kendal. The Lancaster Canal is a canal in Lancashire in the north of England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria (then in Westmorland). ...
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Civic history The municipal borough of Kendal was created in 1835 and until 1894 the town was also an urban sanitary district. The borough boundaries were altered in 1935 by gaining a small part of South Westmorland Rural District under a County Review Order. A borough is a political division originally used in England. ...
Sanitary Districts were established in England and Wales in 1875 and in Ireland in 1878. ...
South Westmorland was a rural district in Westmorland, England from 1894 to 1974. ...
The Local Government Act, 1929 (19 &20 Geo V, c17) made changes to poor law and local government in England and Wales. ...
The civil parishes of Kirkland and Nether Graveship were abolished in 1908 and became part of Kendal Civil Parish whose boundaries were after that the same as the borough. In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the smallest area used for local government. ...
The borough was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 to become a part of South Lakeland district whose administrative centre Kendal is. The town remained a civil parish with a town council. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ...
South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. ...
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Kendal was from 1888 to 1974 the administrative centre of Westmorland although Appleby is the traditional county town. Westmorland (formerly also spelt Westmoreland, an even older spelling is Westmerland) is an area of north west England and one of the 39 historic counties of England. ...
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History Kendal is listed in the Domesday Book as part of Yorkshire with the name Cherchbi.[1]. For many centuries it was called Kirkbie Kendal, meaning "village with a church in the valley of the River Kent". The earliest castle was a Norman motte and bailey (now located on the west side of the town) when the settlement went under the name of Kirkbie Strickland A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...
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Model of a motte-and-bailey A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle. ...
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A chartered market town, the centre of Kendal is structured around a high street with fortified alleyways (known locally as yards) off to either side which allowed the local population to seek shelter from the Anglo-Scottish raiding parties known as the Border Reivers. The main industry in these times was the manufacture of woollen goods, the importance of which is reflected in the town's coat of arms and in its Latin motto "Pannus mihi panis", meaning wool (literally 'cloth') is my bread. "Kendal Green" was hard-wearing wool-based fabric specific to the local manufacturing process, and was supposedly sported by the Kendalian archers who were instrumental in the English victory over the French at Agincourt. The market town is a medieval phenomenon. ...
Border Reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border (Border country), for nearly three hundred years from the late 13th century to the end of the 16th century, although their heyday was perhaps in the last hundred years of their existence. ...
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Combatants Kingdom of England Kingdom of France Commanders Henry V of England Charles dAlbret Strength About 6,000 (but see Modern re-assessment). 4/5 longbowmen, 1/5 dismounted men-at-arms. ...
The site of several (ruined) castles, the most recent one constructed in the late 12th century, Kendal has a long history as a stronghold of one kind or another. King Henry VIII's sixth wife Catherine Parr is falsely believed to have been born at Kendal Castle. Rocky landscape with ruins, by Nicolaes Berchem, ca. ...
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Politics Kendal is part of the Westmorland and Lonsdale parliament constituency of which Tim Farron is the current MP representing the Liberal Democrats. Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Tim Farron Timothy James Tim Farron (born May 27, 1970) British politician He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Westmorland and Lonsdale. ...
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Economy Kendal's early prosperity was based largely on cloth manufacture. In the 19th century it became a centre for the manufacture of snuff and shoes; the K Shoes company remained a major employer in the town until its factory closed in 2003. [1] There are still a number of light industries based in the town, though tourism is now one of the main employers. Snuff can refer to any of the following: Fine-ground smokeless tobacco, intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose Swedish snus tobacco, used between the cheek and upper gums American moist snuff, or dipping tobacco, placed between in the teeth and lower gums. ...
A shoe is an item of footwear often worn on the foot or feet of a human. ...
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On February 26, 2003, Kendal was granted Fairtrade Town status. February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fairtrade Town is a status awarded by the Fairtrade Foundation in the United Kingdom and Channel Islands, describing an area which is committed to the promotion of Fairtrade-labelled goods. ...
Kendal mint cake
 Kendal mint cake with chocolate coating Kendal is known today chiefly for Kendal mint cake, a glucose-based type of confectionery reputedly discovered accidentally by Joseph Wiper during his search for the clear glacier mint. Image File history File links Splitsection. ...
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Used on numerous expeditions to mountaintops (including Mount Everest and K2) and both poles of the Earth, its popularity is mainly due to the very astute decision of the original manufacturer's great nephew to market it as an energy food, and to supply Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1917 Transarctic Expedition. “Everest†redirects here. ...
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By the time the business was sold to competitor Romney's in 1987 there were several rival mint cake producers, many of which are still in business.
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Kendal Dialect The Kendal dialect known as Kendalian, is a diasystem of the Cumbrian dialect spoken around the Kendal area. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Kendal Mountain Search & Mountain Rescue Team Kendal has for many years maintained a voluntary Mountain Search & Rescue team based at Busher Walk. They have performed numerous rescues around the Kendal Area, and along with other local Mountain Rescue teams, helped at the Grayrigg derailment Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments. ...
Viaduct carrying the West Coast Main Line near the scene of the accident The Grayrigg derailment was a train crash that occurred at 20:10 (GMT) on 23 February 2007, at Grayrigg, Cumbria, in north-west England. ...
Education Kirkbie Kendal School is a Business and Enterprise College that serves the area around the town and rural countryside. Kirkbie Kendal School operates as a Foundation school. The other secondary school in the area is Queen Katharine School. There are numerous Primary Schools in the area also, including Stramongate School, Heron Hill, Ghyllside, Vicarage Park, and Dean Gibson. In the nearby village of Natland, there is St. Marks School. Kirkbie Kendal School is a Business and Enterprise College in Kendal, Cumbria, England, and serves the area around the town and rural countryside. ...
Business and Enterprise Colleges (BECs) were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the UK. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields. ...
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a type of school which enjoys a degree of independence from the local education authority. ...
Places of interest - Kendal Museum of Natural History and Archaeology (one of the oldest in the country, it includes an exhibition on the geology of the Lake District, and a stuffed polar bear)
- Abbot Hall Art Gallery (housed in a Georgian villa, it mounts nationally important exhibitions, such as David Bomberg: Spirit in the Mass (17 July - 28 October 2006). Permanent collection includes George Romney, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Ben Nicholson, Paula Rego, Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer and Barbara Hepworth.
- Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry
- Kendal Castle
- Friends' Meeting House, home of the Quaker Tapestry
- The Brewery Arts Centre (offering theatre, dance, exhibitions, cinemas, music, workshops, youth drama and dance)
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There have been two notable figures named George Romney: George Romney (1734-1802) - English portrait painter. ...
J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ...
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The Painters Room, 1943, private collection. ...
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Hepworths Family of Man in bronze, 1970, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. ...
The Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as Quakers) is a Christian religious denomination that began in England in the 17th century by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity. ...
The Quaker Tapestry consists of 77 panels illustrating the history of Quakerism from the 17th century up to the present day. ...
Notable residents The following is a list of people who either were born in Kendal or have significant contacts with Kendal: - Jonathan Dodgson Carr, founder of Carrs Breadmakers and social reform campaigner
- John Cunliffe, creator of Postman Pat
- John Dalton, Chemist and Physicist
- Sir Arthur Eddington, Astrophysicist
- James Ellison, MotoGP rider
- George Romney, portrait painter
- Keith Stainton, politician and WW2 hero in France
- David Starkey, historian
- Alfred Wainwright, Guidebook author and walker
- Wild Beasts, New age pop band
- Keith Wilkinson, ITV television news reporter
- John Wilson, mathematician and astronomer
- Yan, Hamilton and Woody of the indie-rock band British Sea Power – raised in Natland, a nearby village.
John Arthur Cunliffe is a British childrens book writer who created the much-loved characters of Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim. ...
Postman Pat is a BBC stop motion animated childrens television series aimed at pre-school children, concerning the adventures of Pat Clifton, a postman in the (fictional) Yorkshire village of Greendale (inspired by the real valley of Longsleddale in Cumbria). ...
John Dalton John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was an English chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. ...
One of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddingtons papers announced Einsteins theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. ...
Cumbria native James Ellison is Britains only representative in the 2006 MotoGP season. ...
Portrait of Miss Willoughby, second half of 18th century. ...
Keith Monin Stainton (8 November 1921 - 3 November 2001) was British Conservative Member of Parliament for Sudbury and Woodbridge from a 1963 by-election until 1983, when the seat was abolished by boundary changes. ...
David Robert Starkey (born January 3, 1945) is one of Englands best-known historians, and a specialist in the Tudor period. ...
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The Wild Beasts are a new age pop band that originated in Kendal, England in 2002. ...
Keith Wilkinson is a British television reporter. ...
John Wilson (1741 – 1793) was an English mathematician who had a theorem, Wilsons Theorem, named after him for its discovery, not its proof. ...
Yan, BSP promo photo (2002) Scott Wilkinson (stage name Yan) is the lead singer and main songwriter in British Sea Power. ...
Hamilton, Leeds Cockpit (2004, photo by User:Me677) Neil Wilkinson (stage name Hamilton) is the bassist in British Sea Power. ...
Woody, in a fridge (2003) Matthew Wood (stage name Wood, or sometimes using the nickname Woody) is British Sea Powers drummer. ...
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Natland is village and civil parish about two miles south of Kendal in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, close to the village of Oxenholme. ...
Twin Towns Kendal is twinned with: Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ...
Weser watershed Rinteln is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...
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WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ...
See also Kendal Town F.C. is a football club based in Kendal, Cumbria. ...
Burneside is a small village located in Cumbria in the UK // Burneside is located in Northwest England to the north of Kendal and to the South of Stavely. ...
Sedbergh (pronounced Sedber or even, by the locals, Sebber) is a small town in the county of Cumbria, traditionally part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. ...
Oxenholme is a small village in Cumbria a few miles south of Kendal. ...
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