Local information
Penrith is a popular market town on the fringe of the Lake District National Park adjacent to junction 40 of the M6 motorway, and the A66 Trans Pennine Trunk Road interchange; has a railway station serving the main West Coast Line between London and Scotland. The town is 20 miles south of Carlisle and 28 miles north of Kendal, the nearest competitive retail centres. Penrith has a resident population circa 16,000 with a local authority catchment in the region of 50,000. Cornmarket has a good trading position in the town and benefits from a range of national occupiers having a presence in the immediate vicinity including Domino’s, Betfred and Vision Express.