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All Kendal events
  1. Sat 7 Nov Windermere RUFC Annual Fireworks and Bonfire 5.30pm · Windermere RUFC, Dawes Meadow · From £10
  2. Sat 7 Nov Cartmel Fell Bonfire and Fireworks 6pm · Cartmel Fell Parish Hall · From £6
  3. Sat 7 Nov Ritual: Running Standard + Tilda Gebhardt + Dave Shurr 7pm · Lunesdale Hall
  4. Sat 7 Nov Rioghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet 7.30pm · Brewery Arts, Malt Room · From £22
  5. On now to 8 Nov Holker Winter Market Holker Hall · From £5

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Christmas Kirkby Lonsdale Christmas Fair 2026: 4 to 6 Dec, Lights 6pm Kirkby Lonsdale's Christmas Fair runs Friday 4 to Sunday 6 December: lights on at 6pm Friday, Santa parade 2pm Saturday, free parking at Booths all weekend. · 4 min read Environment Windermere sewage plan: a £3.7bn tunnel to keep wastewater out of the lake A £3.6bn to £3.7bn plan would take all wastewater out of Windermere through a new tunnel and connect 12,800 people to sewers. It is a study, not a decision yet. · 4 min read Planning Lake District Pop-Up Campsites to Need Planning From 2028 Pop-up campsites anywhere in the Lake District will need planning permission from 1 March 2028. Comments on the national park's direction close on 16 November. · 6 min read Burneside Burneside Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Burneside Burneside roadworks: Chapel Field (notice of 29 Oct) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked. Windermere Windermere Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Windermere Windermere roadworks: Limethwaite Road (now, until 23 Nov) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the council's notice linked. Burneside Burneside Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Burneside weather today: drizzle, 12°C by day and 8°C overnight, with a 29% chance of rain and winds up to 9 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning. Windermere Windermere Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Windermere weather today: drizzle, 12°C by day and 7°C overnight, with a 31% chance of rain and winds up to 9 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning. Roads Burneside and Grasmere 20mph Approved, Signs by March 2027 Councillors approved 20mph limits for Burneside, Grasmere, Crosscrake and four other places on 15 October, unchanged. Signs are due by the end of March 2027. · 3 min read Christmas Lights of Lowther: light trail from 14 Nov, adults £20 Lowther Castle's new light trail runs 24 evenings, 14 November to 30 December, entry 4pm to 8pm. Adults £20, children £15, family £65, parking free. · 4 min read Christmas Low Wood Bay lights switch-on: Fri 20 Nov, 7.30pm, free Low Wood Bay's first Christmas lights switch-on is free, Friday 20 November, 5pm to 9pm, lights at 7.30pm. A free Gingerbread House Festival runs to 22 Nov. · 4 min read Local Info Kendal Petrol Prices: Cheapest Unleaded and Diesel Today Cheapest petrol in Kendal today: unleaded from 169.9p and diesel from 197.9p a litre, across 5 forecourts within 8 miles. Updated every morning from the... Weather Kendal Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Kendal weather today: drizzle, 12°C by day and 9°C overnight, with a 29% chance of rain and winds up to 6 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
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Kendal News is written for Kendal and the south Lakes: the town itself, then Windermere, Bowness, Ambleside and Grange-over-Sands, and the villages of the Kent and Lyth valleys between them.

The council is Westmorland and Furness, created on 1 April 2023 out of the old South Lakeland, Eden and Barrow districts. It is a wide authority that also reaches Penrith and Barrow-in-Furness, places with little in common with Windermere, and it decides bins, council tax and much of what happens on the roads. Planning is more complicated: inside the national park boundary most applications are decided by the Lake District National Park Authority instead. We say which body a decision came from, every time.

What is covered

  • House prices: what homes actually sold for, by postcode and property type, from Land Registry records.
  • Trains to London: journey times, fares and what is really at Kendal and Oxenholme stations.
  • Roadworks and travel: the closures booked in now, the flood scheme, and car park charges.
  • Planning news: the 491-home application off Burton Road, and the Local Plan that must find room for 26,000.
  • Things to do in Kendal: verified prices and opening hours, including the museums that are currently shut.

Every fact carries a link to the document it came from.