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==Literary, artistic and musical references==
* [[Lydia Sigourney]] includes the poem ''Kendal'' in her ''Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands'' of 1842, recollections of her visit to Europe in 1840.<ref>{{cite web| last =Sigourney|first=Lydia|title=Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands| url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=6QZaAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA34| year=1842 |publisher=James Munroe and Company}}</ref>
*Poet [[W. H. Auden]] says his love is "more wonderful" than "a turbine built by [[Gilkes & Co]]. of Kendal" in his prose poem ''Dichtung und Wahrheit'' <ref>{{Cite book |last=Auden |first=W. H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pe5JEAAAQBAJ&dq=w+h+auden+kendal+gilkes&pg=PA477 |title=The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume II: 1940–1973 |date=2022-06-14 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-21930-1 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Paul McCartney]] references Kendal in the lyrics of his 1973 [[Wings]] song [[Helen Wheels]], stating: "The Kendal freeway's fast". In his 2023 book [[The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present]], McCartney explains that the song was a description of the journey from his farm in Scotland to London undertaken in his Land Rover which he and wife [[Linda]] nicknamed 'Helen Wheels', and referencing key places on the route. He explains: "Kendal is in the Lake District, but the 'Kendal freeway' is meant to be a joke because Kendal is a total bottleneck, as anyone who's tried to drive through it will confirm."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=McCartney |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTW9EAAAQBAJ |title=The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present |last2=Muldoon |first2=Paul |date=2023-11-07 |publisher=Liveright Publishing |isbn=978-1-324-09468-5 |language=en}}</ref>
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