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Photo of the Lake District, a National Park in Cumbria, north west England.

Lake DistrictPhoto Olga Lioncat / Pexels

Places to explore near Kendal StationKendal

57 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 2 are national icons.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of the Lake District, a National Park in Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Lake District

National Park near Grasmere

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

1.4 km W

Photo of Sizergh Castle, a Grade II registered house & garden near Levens in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Sizergh Castle

House & garden near Levens

A medieval pele tower with the National Trust's largest limestone rock garden and a national fern collection.

5.8 km S

Photo of Sizergh Castle, a castle near Levens in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Sizergh Castle

Castle near Levens

Medieval tower house with limestone rock garden.

5.8 km SW

Photo of Levens Hall, a Grade I registered house & garden in Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Levens Hall

House & garden near Levens

Elizabethan hall with world-famous topiary garden.

8.5 km S

Photo of the Yorkshire Dales, a National Park in England.Iconic

Yorkshire Dales

National Park near Gayle

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

8.6 km E

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of the River Kent, a 20-mile river running from Kentmere to Morecambe Bay, north west England.

River Kent

River

A short, fast Cumbrian river falling from the Kentmere fells through Staveley and Kendal to Morecambe Bay.

0.3 km S · Cumbria

Farrer's of Kendal

Farm & farm shop near Kendal

Tea and coffee merchant roasting and blending on Kendal's Stricklandgate since 1819, with an old-fashioned coffee house above the shop.

0.8 km SW

Quiggin's Kendal Mint Cake

Farm & farm shop near Kendal

The oldest surviving maker of Kendal Mint Cake, producing the minty slab in the town since the 1870s.

0.8 km NW

Photo of Kendal, a village in Cumbria, north west England.

Kendal

Village

Grey limestone 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent, gateway to the Lakes, home of Kendal Mint Cake, a ruined castle and Abbot Hall.

0.8 km SW · Cumbria

Romney's Kendal Mint Cake

Farm & farm shop near Kendal

Kendal confectioner making the glucose-and-mint bars carried up Everest in 1953, in production in the town since 1918.

0.9 km SW

Photo along the Dales Way, an 80-mile long-distance path running from Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere, England.

Dales Way

Long-distance path

The gentlest of the classic long walks — riverside paths along the Wharfe and the Dee from Ilkley to the shore of Windermere.

2.8 km N · Cumbria, North Yorkshire & West Yorkshire

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop

Farm & farm shop near Sizergh

Award-winning farm shop in a 17th-century barn on a working dairy farm outside Kendal, with a gallery over the milking parlour and local produce below.

5.8 km S

Photo of The Eagle & Child Inn, a pub near Staveley in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.

The Eagle & Child Inn

Pub near Staveley

Riverside inn in Staveley pouring local Cumbrian ales, a handy stop on the Dales Way beside the Kent.

6.8 km NW

Hawkshead Brewery Beer Hall

Brewery near Staveley

The big glass-fronted tap for Hawkshead Brewery on Staveley Mill Yard, with viewing galleries over the brewhouse and the full beer range.

7 km NW

Everything else within 10 km (43) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.