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Kendal, Westmorland

Kendal 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. (Read more)