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Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a town and 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 as well as concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The community rests just within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Sedbergh goes to 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 parish falls in the electoral ward of Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both communities and surrounding locations with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim primary road lined with stores. From all angles, the hills rising behind your homes can be seen. Up until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote locations were obtainable only by walking over some relatively steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh train station ranged from 1861 to 1954. The civil church covers a big area, including the communities of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill and Cautley, the southern 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 cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") as well as on close-by Firbank Fell during his travels in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was built in 1675. It is the namesake of Basil Pennant's lengthy poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding college in the town, while Settlebeck School is its main state-funded secondary school.