Sedbergh is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies concerning 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster and also about 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community rests simply within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh is at the foot of the Howgill Fells on the north bank of the River Rawthey which joins the River Lune about 2 miles (3 km) listed below the town. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities and surrounding areas with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim main street lined with shops. From all angles, the hills rising behind your homes can be seen. Up until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were obtainable just by walking over some fairly high hills. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a big area, consisting of the communities of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and also Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells as well as the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, an owner of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), talked in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple residence") and on nearby Firbank Fell during his journeys in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was integrated in 1675. It is the name of Basil Bunting's long rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded secondary school.