Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a village and 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 km) north of Lancaster and also regarding 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town sits just within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh is at the foot of the Howgill Fells on the north financial institution of the River Rawthey which signs up with the River Lune about 2 miles (3 kilometres) listed below the community. The parish falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also surrounding locations with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a narrow major street lined with shops. From all angles, capitals climbing behind the houses can be seen. Up until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were obtainable only by walking over some rather steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a big location, including the districts 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, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), spoke in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple residence") and on close-by Firbank Fell throughout his travels in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was constructed in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Pennant's lengthy rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded high school.