Kendal

Worth seeing in and around Kendal

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Kendal Castle

   Castle in the United Kingdom

   800 m · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Alavana

   Roman fort originally built ca. AD 90 and rebuilt ca. AD 130

   2.1 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Castle Howe

   Castle in Cumbria, England

   400 m · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Cunswick Scar

   Mountain in United Kingdom

   2.6 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Abbot Hall Art Gallery

   Grade I listed art museum in Kendal, United Kingdom

   500 m · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Kendal Parish Church

   Church in South Lakeland, UK

   500 m · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Burneside Hall

   Peel tower

   3.3 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Mark's Church, Natland

   Church in South Lakeland, UK

   3.5 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Church of Holy Trinity and St George, Kendal

   Church in South Lakeland, UK

   300 m · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Scout Scar

    Hill in Cumbria, England

    2.8 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Kendal

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 87 km · Newcastle (NCL), 104 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 110 km

Stations

Oxenholme Lake District railway station, 2.9 km · Kendal railway station, 800 m · Burneside railway station, 3.4 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Kendal

  98 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £11–15
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Kendal

  102 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–17
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• Liverpool → Kendal

  103 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kendal

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kendal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Kendal – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.