Qualla: Kendal https://qualla.com/kendal en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/j/kendal-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kendal https://qualla.com/kendal Kendal: Introduction https://qualla.com/kendal/ Photo credit Cnbrb, CC0. Cloth is my bread, says the town motto - Pannus mihi panis, written in Latin around the Kendal coat of arms. For most of seven centuries that was literal truth. The wool trade made Kendal, and the particular hard-wearing weave known as Kendal Green was famous enough to clothe the English archers credited with breaking the French line at Agincourt. Shakespeare gave it to Falstaff's foresters in Henry IV, Part 1. The town's grey limestone buildings have earned it another nickname - the Auld Grey Town - and the contrast captures the place: a hard-working market town built of stone the colour of a winter sky, sitting just outside the Lake District National Park and serving as its commercial gateway. Catherine Parr's family rooted here. Postman Pat was created here. Kendal Mint Cake was carried to the summit of Everest from here. The town is small. Its reach is not.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/j/kendal-wp/gcwj-kendal-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kendal: From Cherchebi to County Town https://qualla.com/kendal/ Photo credit Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists the area under the name Cherchebi, from Old Norse kirkju-by - church-village. For many centuries afterwards it was called Kirkby Kendal: village with a church in the valley of the River Kent. The Kent gave the place its modern name, attached to the...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/j/kendal-wp/gcwj-kendal-from-cherchebi-to-county-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Kendal: Cloth, Snuff, Mint Cake https://qualla.com/kendal/ Photo credit Tim Hodgins, CC BY-SA 2.0. A Roman fort once stood about two miles south of the modern town centre, at a site called Watercrook. Built around AD 90 in timber, rebuilt in stone in Hadrian's reign around 130, abandoned and reoccupied through the second and third centuries until the legions finally pulled bac...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/j/kendal-wp/gcwj-kendal-cloth-snuff-mint-cake.mp3 0:06 3 full Kendal: Catherine Parr's Town https://qualla.com/kendal/ Photo credit Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0. Kendal Castle, the medieval fortification on the drumlin east of town, was for generations the seat of the Parr family. Catherine Parr - sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, the one who outlived him - was long thought to have been born here. Modern research has shown that by her bi...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/j/kendal-wp/gcwj-kendal-catherine-parrs-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Kendal: Auld Grey Town, New Geography https://qualla.com/kendal/ Photo credit Ian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0. Kendal stands at the southern end of the Lake District, ringed by low hills: Scout Scar to the west, Potter Fell to the north, Benson Knott and Helm Hill to the east. The River Kent runs through the town and winds south through dairy and sheep country to Morecambe Bay near Arnsid...

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