Sedbergh is a small town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists about 10 miles (16 km) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and regarding 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community rests just within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh is at the foot of the Howgill Fells on the north bank of the River Rawthey which signs up with the River Lune about 2 miles (3 km) listed below the town. The church falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also surrounding locations with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim major street lined with stores. From all angles, the hills climbing behind your homes can be seen. Till the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were reachable only by walking over some rather steep hills. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a huge location, including the districts of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells and the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, a creator of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), spoke in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple residence") and also on neighboring Firbank Fell throughout his trips in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was constructed in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Pennant's lengthy poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding college in the community, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded senior high school.