Kendal Rugby Union Football Club Kendal Rugby Union Football Club Kendal Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Kendal, Cumbria. The first XV currently plays in North Premier, a fifth level league in the English league system. Kendal RUFC was formed in 1905. moving to their present ground at Mint Bridge in 1927. The club found success in the decades before league rugby was introduced in 1987 and the club was placed in North One. By the turn of the century they were in National League Two, finishing in fourth place in their first season in the third tier of English
Kendal cake, and as a producer of pipe tobacco and tobacco snuff. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname Auld Grey Town. Kendal is listed in the Domesday Book as part of Yorkshire with the name Cherchebi. For many centuries it was called Kirkbie Kendal, meaning "village with a church in the valley of the River Kent". The earliest castle was a Norman motte and bailey (now located on the west side of the town) when the settlement went under the name of Kirkbie Strickland. A chartered market town, the centre of Kendal is