Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists regarding 10 miles (16 km) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster and concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community sits simply within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh is at the foot of the Howgill Fells on the north financial institution of the River Rawthey which signs up with the River Lune concerning 2 miles (3 km) listed below the town. The parish falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities and surrounding areas with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a narrow major street lined with stores. From all angles, capitals increasing behind the houses can be seen. Until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were obtainable only by walking over some relatively high hills. The line to Sedbergh train station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a large area, including the hamlets of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southern part of the Howgill Fells as well as the western part of Baugh Fell. George Fox, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), spoke in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple home") and on nearby Firbank Fell during his trips in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was built in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Bunting's lengthy rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding institution in the town, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded senior high school.
