Kendal: An important town in the English Lake District
River Kent at Kendal. This evening, I am focusing on the sizable town of Kendal which is located on the southern edge of the Lake District National Park, about thirty miles south of Penrith. County is Cumbria which is in N.W. England. The name translates from Old Scandinavian and means 'Village with a church in the valley of the River Kent.' Towards the end of the first millennium there occurred heavy migration from Norway to Cumbria which is reflected today in place names and local dialect. Kendal Town Centre Kendal has a population of about 27,500 and sits on the banks of the River Kent. In the past wealth was generated from markets and wool. Today, there are various industries including Kendal Mint Cake manufacture and snuff & tobacco. Kendal Mint Cake is not a cake in the conventional sense but an 'energy bar' the recipe for which was discovered by accident in 1918.Each 100g bar contains 379 calories.The manufacturer is George Romney Limited.Other unusual prod...