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 in the area, including Castle Park, Stramongate School, Heron Hill, Ghyllside, Vicarage Park, St Thomas's and Dean Gibson. In the nearby village of Natland, there is St Mark's School. The Kendal dialect, known as Kendalian, is a variant of the Cumbrian dialect spoken around the Kendal area. Kendal has for many years maintained a voluntary mountain search and rescue team based at Busher Walk. Its members have performed numerous rescues around the Kendal area, and along with other local mountain rescue teams, helped at the Grayrigg derailment in February 2007. The Kendal Mountain Rescue Team is one of ten current