Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies regarding 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster as well as regarding 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 concerning 2 miles (3 km) below the town. The parish falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns as well as surrounding areas with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim major road lined with stores. From all angles, capitals rising behind the houses can be seen. Until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were obtainable only by walking over some rather high hillsides. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a huge area, including the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southerly part of the Howgill Fells and 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 home") as well as on nearby Firbank Fell during his trips in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was integrated in 1675. It is the name of Basil Pennant's long rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the community, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded secondary school.