Sedbergh
Sedbergh is a small town and also civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it exists concerning 10 miles (16 kilometres) eastern of Kendal, 28 miles (45 km) north of Lancaster and concerning 10 miles (16 km) north of Kirkby Lonsdale. The town rests simply 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 concerning 2 miles (3 km) below the town. The parish falls in the selecting ward of Sedbergh as well as Kirkby Lonsdale. This covers both towns and also surrounding locations with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 6,369. Sedbergh has a slim main street lined with shops. From all angles, capitals rising behind your homes can be seen. Until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote areas were obtainable only by walking over some relatively steep hillsides. The line to Sedbergh railway station ran from 1861 to 1954. The civil parish covers a big area, including the communities of Millthrop, Catholes, Marthwaite, Brigflatts, High Oaks, Howgill, Lowgill as well as Cautley, the southerly 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), talked in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church (which he called a "steeple house") and also on close-by Firbank Fell throughout his travels in the North of England in 1652. Briggflatts Meeting House was integrated in 1675. It is the name of Basil Bunting's lengthy poem Briggflatts (1966 ). Sedbergh School is a co-educational boarding school in the town, while Settlebeck School is its major state-funded high school.