Sedbergh is a town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies regarding 10 miles (16 km) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community rests simply 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 concerning 2 miles (3 kilometres) listed below the town. The church falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities and bordering areas with an overall population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a narrow main road lined with shops. From all angles, capitals rising behind your homes can be seen. Up until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were obtainable just by walking over some fairly high hills. The line to Sedbergh train station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a huge area, consisting of the districts of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and also Cautley, the southerly part of the Howgill Fells and also the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, an owner 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 during his journeys in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was constructed 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 primary state-funded senior high school.