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 km) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster as well as concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town rests 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 regarding 2 miles (3 km) below the community. The church falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities and surrounding locations with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim primary street lined with stores. From all angles, capitals climbing behind your homes can be seen. Until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were obtainable only by walking over some fairly steep hills. The line to Sedbergh railway station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a large location, including the districts of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and also Cautley, the southerly part of the Howgill Fells as well as 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 on nearby 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 institution in the community, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded high school.