Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town as well as 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 km) north of Lancaster and also about 10 miles (16 kilometres) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community 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 regarding 2 miles (3 kilometres) listed below the town. The parish falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and bordering areas with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim major road lined with shops. From all angles, the hills rising behind the houses can be seen. Till the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were obtainable just by walking over some rather steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a big location, including the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southern 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 residence") and on nearby Firbank Fell throughout his travels in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was constructed in 1675. It is the name of Basil Pennant's long rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding college in the town, while Settlebeck School is its main state-funded senior high school.