Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists about 10 miles (16 km) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and regarding 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town 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) below the community. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and 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 main street lined with shops. From all angles, the hills rising behind the houses can be seen. Until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were reachable only by walking over some relatively high hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a large area, consisting of the districts of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and Cautley, the southerly 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 house") and also on neighboring 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 Bunting's long rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its main state-funded senior high school.