Historically within the county of Westmorland, the village straddles the A6070 road between Crooklands and Carnforth, at a point around midway between Lancaster and Kendal, and is in the shadow of the nearby limestone outcrop known as Farleton Knott.
The district reporters announced were Victoria Hoe in Kendal, Hannah Lomas in Carlisle, Lee Madan in Selkirk, Stuart Pollitt in Whitehaven, Olivia Richwald in Dumfries and Kathryn Samson in Edinburgh.
Kendal | William Hunter Kendal | Geoffrey Kendal | Kendal College | Kendal Calling | Kendal and Windermere Railway | Felicity Kendal | William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal | Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal | Kendal Regency | Kendal Castle | Jennifer Kendal | Duke of Kendal |
Commissions include BBC Radio, Ripon Cathedral and Kendal Community Theatre and collaborations with other writers, amongst them Guy Wilson (The Armed Man).
He was designated Duke of Kendal and was to have been created Duke of Kendal, Earl of Wigmore and Baron of Holdenby, but no patent was ever enrolled.
The Composer-Tron was developed by Osmond Kendal for the Canadian Marconi Company in 1953.
Later he switched to 7 mm scale modelling, building Kendal, Kendal II and Kendal Branch the latter of the earlier pre-grouping period of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).
ITV Border also maintains a bureau for Scottish Parliament coverage in Edinburgh with reporters and camera crews based locally in Dumfries, Galloway, Kendal, Selkirk and Whitehaven.
James Yate Johnson (1820, Kendal, Cumbria – 2 February 1900, Funchal) was an English naturalist.
After the closure of the private academies at Kendal (1753) and Findern, Derbyshire (1754), a project was launched in July 1754 for establishing in the north of England a dissenting academy by subscription.
Sir John Weston, 1st Baronet (1852–1926), British Member of Parliament for Kendal, 1913–1918 and Westmorland, 1918–1924
His maternal grandparents, Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Kendal, were actors who toured India and Asia with their theatre group, Shakespeareana, performing Shakespeare and Shaw.
Kendal Calling is an independent music festival held annually at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District, Cumbria.
Signals come from the Kendal transmitter next to the A684 on 100.1 MHz and from the Windermere transmitter at the side of Windermere Lake on 100.8 MHz and from Keswick Forest on 101.4 MHz The RDS name is LAKELAND.
The Lancaster Canal Company obtained an Act of Parliament (32 Geo. III c. 101) in 1792 to construct a canal linking the towns of Kendal, Lancaster and Preston to the coalfields around Wigan.
When the directors of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway were choosing its route in the 1840s, one possibility considered was a route through Kendal and along Longsleddale, with a 2 mile tunnel under the Gatescarth Pass into Mardale and thence towards Bampton.
It all started with touring Shakespeare alongside Felicity Kendal and her parents, Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Liddell, followed by a merit scholarship to the RADA.
Peter Kendal Hargreaves CBE (born 5 October 1946) is co-founder with Stephen Lansdown of Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the United Kingdom's largest financial services businesses.
He was born at Crook near Kendal, and educated at Stand grammar school and Glasgow University, where he studied under Francis Hutcheson and Robert Simson.
On Friday 25 October 1415 Thomas and his Men at arms, including a group of elite archers known as "the Kendal Bowmen", were part of the army of King Henry V that won a major battle at Agincourt in North West France against superior numbers.
Nicholas Freeston (1907-1978), Award winning Lancashire poet, born in Kendal
At a similar time, during the period 1145-1154, a major enfeoffment by Roger de Mowbray put William in control, or perhaps just confirmed his control, of what would become the Barony of Kendal, plus Warton, Garstang, and Wyresdale in Lancashire, as well as Horton in Ribblesdale and "Londsdale".