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|text='''Kendal''' is a market town in [[Westmorland]] and the county's largest town in terms of population. It considered Westmorland's second town, for as the county is divided by high fells, Kendal has served a second county capital. | |text='''Kendal''' is a market town in [[Westmorland]] and the county's largest town in terms of population. It considered Westmorland's second town, for as the county is divided by high fells, Kendal has served a second county capital. | ||
| − | The town stands on the River Kent, whose dale gives the town its name, 20 miles from Appleby across the Shap Fells. Today Kendal is known largely as a centre for tourism, as the home of Kendal mint cake, and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname the ''Auld Grey Town''}}<noinclude> | + | The town stands on the River Kent, whose dale gives the town its name, 20 miles from Appleby across the Shap Fells. Today Kendal is known largely as a centre for tourism, as the home of Kendal mint cake, and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname the ''Auld Grey Town''.}}<noinclude> |
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