Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies about 10 miles (16 kilometres) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster as well as concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community 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 signs up with the River Lune regarding 2 miles (3 km) listed below the town. The church falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and bordering areas with a complete 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 your houses can be seen. Up 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 train station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a huge area, including the districts of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and also Cautley, the southerly part of the Howgill Fells and the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, a creator of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), spoke in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") and also on nearby Firbank Fell during 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 poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding college in the town, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded secondary school.