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Start: [[Brewery Arts Centre]] car park
 
Start: [[Brewery Arts Centre]] car park
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Brief history of the brewery
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Why brewery was there (spring line?)
  
 
[[Captain French Lane]]
 
[[Captain French Lane]]
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Captain French
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Routine/Rattan/Rotten Row link to fell and Underbarrow Road to west
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Industry - Card making (wool cards), later scrap Yard (Hanrattys) and rag yard.
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People - poorer end, smaller houses
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[[Garth Heads]]
 
[[Garth Heads]]
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'Back Lane'
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Kendal Fault
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Way up to Bowling Fell
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Spring line
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Water tanks
  
 
[[Castle Howe]]
 
[[Castle Howe]]
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Normans establish rule
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1090 First castle (3rd defensive structure)
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Motte and Bailey (flat pack) local help, feudal system
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Monument - 'Bill's Bodkin' Bill Holme & Francis Webster The Glorious Revolution (Monument Windermere Road)
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Bowling Fell - early dedication to recreation - Kendal Fell Trust Act
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[[Beast Banks]]
 
[[Beast Banks]]
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Beast Fayre/meat market near castle Bull baiting, bull ring, selling meat
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Suppressed
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Settlement top of hill
  
 
[[Postman Pat]]
 
[[Postman Pat]]
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John Cunliffe, Greendale/Kentmere, Mrs Goggins
  
 
[[High Tenterfell]]
 
[[High Tenterfell]]
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Tenter frames reserved
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Fell Trust
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Enclosure
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Farm land
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Wood yard
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Ropewalk
  
 
[[Serpentine Woods]]
 
[[Serpentine Woods]]
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1760s Kendal Fell - barren - rocks and stones - locals had rights of common - fuel wood, grazing, gardens, etc.
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1767 Kendal Fell Trust Act - public ownership - 'for the benefit of the poor' - support workhouse, light and cleanse town
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Rented out for income
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Trustees  - notable quakers barred from public office
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Commercial tree plantation 1790s, inc specimen trees
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1820s Serpentine Cottage - caretaker protect trees
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1820s pleasure ground - Serpentine Walks - paid initially - 6d (gentry)
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1849 opened to public - controversy - flower beds ransacked?
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Whitwell (Fern Garden)
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Darwin Leighton - Grocer/amateur naturalist (Bleak House)
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Storm Arwen damage
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Time Gun, wishing well, dancing green
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Trails - Town Council natural history, Alphabet
  
 
[[Greenside Lime Kiln]]
 
[[Greenside Lime Kiln]]
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Quarries and lime burning Kettlewell and Kendal Fell
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Coal with the canal - the 'Black and White'
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1861 another Kendal Fell Trust Act to dissolve - public health acts, trust no longer required - land sold for building Greenside, Queens Road, Kendal Green
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Building boom - stone and lime big demand Kendal and further
  
 
[[Category:Walks]]
 
[[Category:Walks]]

Revision as of 02:15, 28 July 2024

Start: Brewery Arts Centre car park

Brief history of the brewery Why brewery was there (spring line?)

Captain French Lane

Captain French Routine/Rattan/Rotten Row link to fell and Underbarrow Road to west 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 1090 First castle (3rd defensive structure) Motte and Bailey (flat pack) local help, feudal system Monument - 'Bill's Bodkin' Bill Holme & Francis Webster The Glorious Revolution (Monument Windermere Road) Bowling Fell - early dedication to recreation - Kendal Fell Trust Act


Beast Banks

Beast Fayre/meat market near castle Bull baiting, bull ring, selling meat Suppressed Settlement top of hill

Postman Pat

John Cunliffe, Greendale/Kentmere, Mrs Goggins

High Tenterfell

Tenter frames reserved 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