Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies about 10 miles (16 kilometres) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster as well as 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 financial institution of the River Rawthey which signs up with the River Lune about 2 miles (3 kilometres) listed below the town. The church falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh and also Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also surrounding areas with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim major street lined with shops. From all angles, the hills climbing behind the houses can be seen. Till the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were reachable just by walking over some fairly high hillsides. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a big location, consisting of the communities of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southerly part of the Howgill Fells and 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") and also on close-by Firbank Fell during his trips in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was constructed in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Pennant's lengthy poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded senior high school.
