Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies regarding 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and about 10 miles (16 kilometres) 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 bank of the River Rawthey which joins the River Lune regarding 2 miles (3 km) below the town. The church falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities as well as bordering areas with an overall population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a narrow main road lined with stores. From all angles, the hills rising behind the houses can be seen. Until the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were reachable only by walking over some rather high hillsides. The line to Sedbergh railway station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a huge area, consisting of the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and 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), spoke in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple home") as well as on nearby Firbank Fell throughout his trips in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was constructed in 1675. It is the name of Basil Bunting's lengthy rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the community, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded senior high school.
