Stricklandgate

Now the road to Staveley, Windermere and the north via the Lake District it extends from its southernmost junction with Highgate and Finkle Street to its junction with Burneside Road and Windermere Road to the north. It is also joined by the Market Place, Sandes Avenue and Busher Walk on it's east side and Entry Lane, Library Road and Maude Street on it's west side.

Described in "Kirkbie-Kendal, Fragments collected relating to it's ancient Streets and Yards; Church and Castle; Houses and Inns", John F Curwen, 1901

The “geat” or drift road, along which the young cattle were driven to the township “stirk-lands,” where they pastured in common upon the unenclosed land, now known as Strickland Ketel and Strickland Roger.

It's origins were probably, as suggested by this quote, a cattle drove road rather than as a road to other townships as there was little immediately to the north and west of Kendal - Windermere only really developed (from the hamlet of Birthwaite) when the railway was put through towards the lake shore in the later 1800s. The main road to the north.