Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies regarding 10 miles (16 kilometres) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and regarding 10 miles (16 km) 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 concerning 2 miles (3 kilometres) below the town. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also bordering locations with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim main street lined with shops. From all angles, capitals increasing behind your homes can be seen. Till the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were reachable only by walking over some rather steep hills. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a huge area, 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 cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") as well as on neighboring Firbank Fell throughout his travels 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 senior high school.
