Castle Howe and Serpentine

Brewery Arts Centre

Start: car park

Brief history of the brewery

Why brewery was there (spring line?)

Captain French Lane

Captain John French - owned property, rebuilt. Churchwarden, parliamentary captain (imprisoned), burgess 1654 and 59

Speed -Routine/Rattan/Rotten Row link to fell and Underbarrow Road to west and cemetery?

Industry - Card making (wool cards), later scrap Yard (Hanrattys) and rag yard.

People - poorer end, smaller houses

Garth Heads

'Back Lane'

Kendal Fault

Way up to Bowling Fell

Spring line/Water tanks

Castle Howe

Normans establish rule

1092 First castle (3rd defensive structure) (Willaim Rufus)

Motte and Bailey (flat pack) pallisade round bailey camp and motte

Monument - erected 1788 'Bill's Bodkin' Bill Holme & Francis Webster The Glorious Revolution 1688 (Monument Windermere Road)

Liberty (Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity) Whigs hated 4 Hanovarian King Georges. (Tories Napoleon Elba monument Tolson Hall)

Bowling Fell - early dedication to recreation - Kendal Fell Trust Act

Beast Banks

Beast Fayre/meat market near castle Bull baiting, bull ring, selling meat "bull-beef" lighted lamp, fine 3s 4d

Suppressed by Corporation 1791 (accidents)

Settlement top of hill

Postman Pat

John Cunliffe, Greendale/Longsledale

BBC asked him to write TV series about countryside life for children. Suggested postman based

High Tenterfell

Tenter frames reserved in Fell Trust Enclosure

Farm land, Wood yard, Ropewalk

Serpentine Woods

1760s Kendal Fell - barren - rocks and stones - locals had rights of common - fuel wood, grazing, gardens, etc.

1767 Kendal Fell Trust Act - public ownership - 'for the benefit of the poor' - support workhouse, light and cleanse town

Rented out for income

Trustees - notable quakers barred from public office

Commercial tree plantation 1790s, inc specimen trees

1820s Serpentine Cottage - caretaker protect trees

1820s pleasure ground - Serpentine Walks - paid initially - 6d (gentry)

1849 opened to public - controversy - flower beds ransacked?

Whitwell (Fern Garden)

Darwin Leighton - Grocer/amateur naturalist (Bleak House)

Storm Arwen damage

Time Gun, wishing well, dancing green

Trails - Town Council natural history, Alphabet

Greenside Lime Kiln

Quarries and lime burning Kettlewell and Kendal Fell

Coal with the canal - the 'Black and White'

1861 another Kendal Fell Trust Act to dissolve - public health acts, trust no longer required - land sold for building Greenside, Queens Road, Kendal Green

Building boom - stone and lime big demand Kendal and further