Sedbergh is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists concerning 10 miles (16 km) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster as well as about 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community rests simply 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 about 2 miles (3 km) below the community. The church falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities as well as bordering areas with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim major street lined with shops. From all angles, the hills increasing behind your homes can be seen. Up until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were reachable just by walking over some relatively high hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a big location, including the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and also Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells as well as the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, an owner 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 neighboring Firbank Fell during his journeys in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was built in 1675. It is the name of Basil Bunting's long rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its main state-funded high school.