Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies about 10 miles (16 kilometres) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster and about 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community rests simply within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh goes to the foot of the Howgill Fells on the north financial institution of the River Rawthey which joins the River Lune about 2 miles (3 km) listed below the community. The church falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and bordering locations with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim major road lined with shops. From all angles, the hills increasing behind your houses can be seen. Till the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were reachable only by walking over some relatively steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a huge location, including the communities of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and also Cautley, the southerly 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), spoke in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple residence") and on close-by Firbank Fell during his journeys in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was integrated in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Bunting's long rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the community, while Settlebeck School is its main state-funded secondary school.