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Events What's On in Kendal: Pumpkin Patch Open, Then Halloween at Levens Kendal Kendal violent crime: 140 in July, a three-year high Kendal Kendal Age Friendly Festival: free on Sunday 4 October

Coming up

All Kendal events
  1. On now to 10 Oct Holy Creatures exhibition Kendal Museum · From £5
  2. On now to 4 Oct Lakes International Comic Arts Festival Venues across Kendal town centre
  3. Sat 3 Oct Kendal outdoor market Market Place
  4. 3 to 31 Oct Pumpkin patch at Lakeland Maze Farm Park Lakeland Maze Farm Park · From £12.16
  5. Sun 4 Oct South Lakes Age Friendly Festival 11am · Kendal Leisure Centre · Free

Latest news

Kendal Kendal Remembrance Sunday: 8 November, Silence at 11am Kendal marks Remembrance Sunday on 8 November 2026 with a Parish Church service and a two-minute silence at 11am at the Market Place war memorial. · 2 min read Christmas Kendal Christmas Shows 2026: No Panto, Four Family Plays Kendal has no traditional panto this year. Brewery Arts stages The Elves and the Shoemaker from 19 December; Bowness has two shows and Kendal a Treasure Island. · 4 min read Christmas Where to See Father Christmas Near Kendal in 2026 Santa near Kendal in 2026: Ambleside Santa cruise tickets are on sale now at £24.45; Lakeside steam Tinsel Trains, £125 a compartment, go on sale 4 November. · 4 min read Christmas Winter at Sizergh 2026: Light Trail From 20 November Winter at Sizergh runs daily from 20 November to Christmas Eve 2026, noon to 8pm: a light trail, Christmas in the house and crafts. Non-members £13 an adult. · 3 min read Kendal Kendal council sites for disposal: depot, County Hall, hub Mintsfeet depot, County Hall, the Kendal East family hub site and land on Fowl Ing Lane are on the council's surplus list, plus Milnthorpe's old toilets. · 5 min read House prices Westmorland and Furness house prices hit a record £230,449 The district average reached £230,449 in July, the highest the index has recorded. But June's 11.1% rise has since been revised down to 10.1%. · 5 min read Local Info Kendal Roadworks This Week: Burneside Road and Nether Bridge Burneside Road is shut to all traffic into early November. Nether Bridge closes on 12 October, the night A590 closures at Meathop begin. Full list. · 21 min read Kendal Kendal polling stations: what changes, comments close 5 Oct The council is asking whether Kendal Leisure Centre, the Common Room and the Beck Centre still work as polling places. Comments close on 5 October. · 7 min read Kendal Westmorland and Furness Way opens via Burneside The Westmorland and Furness Way opened on 15 September. Its longest stage, 27 miles from Sedbergh to Bowness, runs through Burneside and Staveley. · 8 min read Kendal Kendal claimant count: 320 in August, a 2026 high Kendal's five wards recorded 320 claimants in August, the joint highest of 2026. Nether ward rose 15 in a month, against a district figure flat on the year. · 7 min read Kendal Westmorland Shopping Centre car park: wider bays from 28 Sep Relining at Kendal's biggest car park starts Monday 28 September. Bays go from 2.4m to 2.6m wide, so there will be fewer spaces, and floors will shut in turn. · 4 min read Kendal Nether Bridge, Kendal: five-day closure from 12 October Nether Bridge shuts to all vehicles for up to five days from Monday 12 October while the parapet demolished in June is rebuilt. Diversion via Romney Bridge. · 6 min read
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Kendal News is written for Kendal and the south Lakes: the town itself, then Windermere, Bowness, Ambleside and Grange-over-Sands, and the villages of the Kent and Lyth valleys between them.

The council is Westmorland and Furness, created on 1 April 2023 out of the old South Lakeland, Eden and Barrow districts. It is a wide authority that also reaches Penrith and Barrow-in-Furness, places with little in common with Windermere, and it decides bins, council tax and much of what happens on the roads. Planning is more complicated: inside the national park boundary most applications are decided by the Lake District National Park Authority instead. We say which body a decision came from, every time.

What is covered

  • House prices: what homes actually sold for, by postcode and property type, from Land Registry records.
  • Trains to London: journey times, fares and what is really at Kendal and Oxenholme stations.
  • Roadworks and travel: the closures booked in now, the flood scheme, and car park charges.
  • Planning news: the 491-home application off Burton Road, and the Local Plan that must find room for 26,000.
  • Things to do in Kendal: verified prices and opening hours, including the museums that are currently shut.

Every fact carries a link to the document it came from.