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...Property prices are higher on the eastern part of the park where access (via the M6) is easier and it offers the popular towns of Ambleside, Windermere, Kendal and Keswick, according to Savills....
...The range and the danger area beyond it are open to walkers for several days a year....
...Ings, Near Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 9PY, 01539 821309; lakelandpub.co.uk Cuckoo Brow Inn Handcrafted burgers are the signature of this Ambleside pub: specials include pork, thyme and black pudding...
...This is one of the exciting things about the growth of cold-water swimming: well-loved landscapes, whose every ridge and summit are tramped by walkers and climbers, are now being looked at with fresh eyes...
...Spencer Hannah and his wife Diane moved from Manchester to Kendal 13 years ago after first buying a holiday home....
...Among the larger businesses hit by flooding again are the McVitie’s biscuit factory in Carlisle, James Walker, the specialist sealant maker, in Cumbria, and papermaker James Cropper in Kendal....
...One of the oldest trade winners is Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon, a maker of hydro electric turbines and engine cooling pumps based in Kendal, Cumbria, which started trading in 1853....
...Sometimes proposals prove controversial, such as the plan to erect a statue of Alfred Wainwright, Lake District hill-walker and writer, in Kendal....
...“We are insulated [from the effects of the downturn] by having the national park,” says Andrew Holmes of estate agency Carter Jonas in Kendal....
...Lakeland squall The Lake District town of Kendal is embroiled in a controversy over plans to erect a statue to Alfred Wainwright, the hill-walker and writer whose Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells...
...It is too cold – despite the shivering summiteers munching away on Kendal mint cake – to stop for lunch....
...Wainwright, born in Blackburn, fell in love with the Lakes as a young man and later moved to Kendal to live and work....
...Kendals in the wind Annie Walker, the late landlady of the Rover's Return, must be turning in her grave. House of Fraser plans to axe the name of Kendals, a.k.a. the Harrods of the North....
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