Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists regarding 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and about 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town 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 joins the River Lune about 2 miles (3 km) below the town. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities and surrounding areas with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim primary road lined with shops. From all angles, capitals climbing behind the houses can be seen. Till the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were reachable just by walking over some fairly high hills. The line to Sedbergh train station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a large area, including the communities of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells and 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 residence") as well as on nearby Firbank Fell throughout his trips 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 school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded secondary school.
