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 kilometres) north of Lancaster as well as concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community sits simply within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh goes to the foot of the Howgill Fells on the north bank of the River Rawthey which joins the River Lune concerning 2 miles (3 kilometres) below the community. The church falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities as well as bordering locations with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim main road lined with stores. From all angles, the hills increasing behind your homes can be seen. Up until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were obtainable just by walking over some rather high hills. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a large location, consisting of the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southerly 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") and on close-by 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 Bunting's lengthy rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding college in the town, while Settlebeck School is its main state-funded secondary school.
