Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists regarding 10 miles (16 km) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster and also concerning 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town rests just 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 kilometres) listed below the town. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also bordering areas with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim primary road lined with stores. From all angles, the hills rising behind your houses can be seen. Until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were reachable only by walking over some rather steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a huge location, including the districts 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, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), spoke in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple residence") and also 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 lengthy poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding college in the community, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded high school.
