Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists about 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster as well as about 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community sits just 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 signs up with the River Lune concerning 2 miles (3 km) listed below the town. The church falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns as well as surrounding locations with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim main street lined with shops. From all angles, capitals increasing behind the houses can be seen. Till the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were obtainable just by walking over some relatively steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a large area, including the hamlets 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 creator of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), talked in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") as well as on close-by Firbank Fell throughout 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 rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the community, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded secondary school.
