Kendal is a market town and civil parish within the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. It is 39.5 miles (63.6 km) south of Carlisle, on the River Kent, and has a total resident population of 27,521, making it the third largest settlement in Cumbria (behind Carlisle and Barrow).
Historically a part of Westmorland, Kendal today is known largely as a centre for tourism, as the home of Kendal mint cake, as a world-renowned producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff, and for having the largest number of pubs in a square mile within its town centre of anywhere in the UK[citation needed]. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname the Auld Grey Town.
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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