North West England
Cumbria
Westmorland & Furness

Kendal

Kendal, in , is a market town of 29,000 inhabitants. It describes itself as "The Gateway to the Lakes". Kendal is a picturesque, moderate sized town with plenty of shopping and surprisingly little tourist activity.
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  • Type: Town with 27,500 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in South Lakeland, Cumbria, England
  • Also known as: “Kendal, Cumbria” and “Kirkby Kendal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kendal Castle and Kendal railway station.

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is a medieval fortification to the east of the town of Kendal, , in northern England. The castle, which is atop a glacial drumlin, was built in the 13th century as the Caput baroniae for the Barony of Kendal.

Railway station
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serves the market town of Kendal, in , England. It is a stop on the Windermere branch line, which runs between Oxenholme and .

Museum
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is a local museum in Kendal, , on the edge of the in northwest . It was founded in 1796 and includes collections of local archaeology, history, and geology, and a natural history collection from around the globe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burneside and Skelsmergh.

Village
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is a small village in , , England. It is located to the north of Kendal and to the south east of , on the , just upstream from the confluence of the .

Hamlet
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is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of and Scalthwaiterigg, in in rural , England, about 4 miles north of Kendal, on the A6 road.

Village
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is a in England just south of the town of Kendal, with which it has begun to merge. It is best known for on the West Coast Main Line. is situated 2 miles southeast of Kendal.

Kendal

Latitude
54.329° or 54° 19′ 44″ north
Longitude
-2.7472° or 2° 44′ 50″ west
Population
27,500
Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)
IATA airport code
KXN
United Nations Location Code
GB KND
Open location code
9C6V87H3+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27159843
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2645826
Wiki­data ID
Q994575
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Kendal” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Քենդալ”
  • Asturian: “Kendal”
  • Basque: “Kendal”
  • Belarusian: “Кендал”
  • Bengali: “কেন্ডাল”
  • Bosnian: “Kendal”
  • Bulgarian: “Кендал”
  • Catalan: “Kendal”
  • Cebuano: “Kendal”
  • Chinese: “Kendal”
  • Chinese: “肯德尔”
  • Chinese: “肯德爾”
  • Czech: “Kendal”
  • Danish: “Kendal”
  • Dutch: “Kendal”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кендал”
  • Esperanto: “Kendal”
  • Estonian: “Kendal”
  • Finnish: “Kendal”
  • French: “Kendal”
  • Galician: “Kendal”
  • Georgian: “კენდალი”
  • German: “Kendal”
  • Greek: “Κένταλ”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ડલ”
  • Hebrew: “קנדל”
  • Inari Sami: “Kendal”
  • Indonesian: “Kendal, Inggris”
  • Indonesian: “Kendal”
  • Irish: “Kendal”
  • Italian: “Kendal”
  • Japanese: “ケンダル”
  • Japanese: “ケンデイル”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Kendal”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆಂಡಾಲ್”
  • Kildin Sami: “Кендал”
  • Korean: “켄달”
  • Korean: “켄들”
  • Ladin: “Kendal”
  • Latvian: “Kendala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kendalis”
  • Lule Sami: “Kendal”
  • Macedonian: “Кендал”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kendal (Cumbria)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kendal”
  • Northern Sami: “Kendal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kendal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kendal”
  • Norwegian: “Kendal”
  • Persian: “کندال”
  • Pite Sami: “Kendal”
  • Polish: “Kendal”
  • Portuguese: “Kendal”
  • Romanian: “Kendal”
  • Russian: “Кендал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kendal”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kendal”
  • Slovenian: “Kendal”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کندال”
  • Southern Sami: “Kendal”
  • Spanish: “Kendal”
  • Swedish: “Kendal”
  • Tamil: “கெண்டால்”
  • Telugu: “కేండల్”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Kendal”
  • Turkish: “Kendal”
  • Ukrainian: “Кендал”
  • Ume Sami: “Kendal”
  • Urdu: “کیندال”
  • Urdu: “کینڈل”
  • Volapük: “Kendal”
  • Welsh: “Kendal”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kendal”. Photo: Heinonlein, CC BY-SA 3.0.