Sedbergh is a village and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists about 10 miles (16 km) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster and also regarding 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community rests 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 signs up with the River Lune regarding 2 miles (3 km) below the community. The parish falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also bordering locations with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim primary street lined with shops. From all angles, capitals increasing behind your homes can be seen. Up until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were obtainable just by walking over some fairly high hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a huge location, including the communities of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and Cautley, the southerly part of the Howgill Fells and the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), spoke in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") and also on neighboring Firbank Fell during his trips in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was built in 1675. It is the name of Basil Pennant's long poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded secondary school.