A fly around Kendal Castle - a proper hilltop ruin that still feels like it’s keeping an eye on the town below. The stone castle was built around 1200 to replace the earlier fortification at Castle Howe, and it became the seat of the Barony of Kendal. You can still read the plan from above - curtain wall, towers, the gatehouse area - even though the place has been a ruin since the Tudor period. It’s also tangled up in local legend through the Parr family, later owners of the castle and linked wi

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