Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a town as well as 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 km) north of Lancaster and also concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town rests just within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh is at the foot of the Howgill Fells on the north bank of the River Rawthey which joins the River Lune about 2 miles (3 kilometres) listed below the community. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also bordering areas with an overall population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim primary street lined with shops. From all angles, capitals climbing behind your houses can be seen. Till the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were reachable just by walking over some rather steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a large area, consisting of the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells and also the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), talked in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple home") as well as on neighboring Firbank Fell throughout his journeys in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was integrated in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Pennant's long poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding college in the town, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded high school.