Sedbergh is a village as well as civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies about 10 miles (16 km) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and concerning 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town sits simply 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 joins the River Lune concerning 2 miles (3 km) below the town. The church falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also bordering areas with an overall population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a narrow main road lined with stores. From all angles, capitals rising behind your houses can be seen. Until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were obtainable only by walking over some relatively high hills. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a large location, consisting of the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and also Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells and also the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, a creator of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), talked in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") and also on nearby Firbank Fell during his travels 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 institution in the community, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded senior high school.