Wainwrights Yard - Kendal, Cumbria, UK.
N 54° 19.703 W 002° 44.906
30U E 516360 N 6020087
Wainwrights Yard is a mixed use development located in Kendal.
Waymark Code: WM12NBR
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/21/2020
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Wainwrights Yard formerly known as Yard 28, is a mixed use development located in Kendal.
Wainwrights YardWainwrights Yard is a new development that was started in 2004. It was designed and is maintained by the Eric Wright Group. It includes a mixture of new retail units, a Booths Supermarket, the offices of the Westmorland Gazette, and a new public square with seating.
The Rotary Club of Kendal made a generous contribution towards the cost of the seating in the public square at Wainwrights Yard.
There is a plaque set into on the stone wall that surrounds the seating area that was placed by the Rotary Club of Kendal in 2005 to commemorate 100 years of Rotary International.
The plaque shows the Rotary International Sign and is inscribed as follows;
A CENTURY OF SERVICE
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
100 Years
A generous contribution towards
this seating was donated by the
Rotary Club of Kendal
to mark the Centenary of
Rotary International in 2005"The walkway which ran alongside the old Westmorland Gazette offices, formerly Yard 28, has been re-named Wainwright’s Yard, in memory of the former Kendal borough treasurer Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991) who achieved worldwide fame for his walking books.
Within the new public square there are a number of seats each with a slate slab that has a reproduction of a page from Wainwrights ‘Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells’.
Source: Pictures of the slate slabs can be seen at the following link: (
visit link)
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