Sedbergh is a village and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists concerning 10 miles (16 km) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and also concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town 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 kilometres) below the community. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also bordering areas with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a narrow major road lined with stores. From all angles, capitals rising behind your homes can be seen. Up until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were reachable only by walking over some rather steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a huge location, consisting of the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells and also the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), talked in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple residence") as well as on neighboring Firbank Fell during his travels in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was constructed in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Pennant's long poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding institution in the town, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded high school.