Window Shutters in Sedbergh

Sedbergh

Sedbergh is a small town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies about 10 miles (16 km) east of Kendal, 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Lancaster and about 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town sits 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 joins the River Lune about 2 miles (3 km) below the community. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities as well as surrounding areas with a complete population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a narrow major street lined with stores. From all angles, the hills rising behind your houses can be seen. Till the resulting the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were obtainable just by walking over some relatively high hills. The line to Sedbergh train station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a big area, consisting of the districts 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), talked in the churchyard of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") and on neighboring Firbank Fell throughout his trips in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was built in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Bunting's long rhyme Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its primary state-funded high school.