Photographs of Sedbergh and neighbouring hamlets at the foot of the Howgill Fells in the Cumbrian Dales.
LOCAL GALLERIES: Sedbergh Fells - Brigflatts and Firbank Fell - Dentdale - Garsdale
LOCAL WALKS: Sedbergh Area Discovery Walks
St. Mark's Church, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
A lovely little church, built 1847 in a picturesque setting.
St. Mark's Church, Cautley, Sedbergh, Cumbria, England.
This lovely little church was built in 1857.
Cautley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Cautley, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
A picturesque Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built in 1845 with the Howgills as a backdrop.
Telegraph wires removed.
Sprintgill Weslyan Methodist Chapel dated 1861 near Cautley, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
The Cross Keys Temperance Inn, Cautley, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
The original building dates back to the late 16th century and used to be a farmhouse called High Haygarth. In the mid 17th century the farmhouse was owned by Colonel Benson, Mayor of Kendal, who had turned against state religion and joined the Westmorland Seekers. He became an early supporter of George Fox since his visit to speak to the Seekers in 1652. A year later the Colonel’s first wife gave birth to a son whilst being imprisoned in York for heckling a priest. She died a few years later and was buried in the garden at High Haygarth - now probably underneath the dining room! The initials above the door refer to John and Agnes Howgill who later owned the farmhouse. The building became an inn shortly after 1819 when the road was built. In 1902 the landlord drowned in the River Rothay after attempting to escort a drunken customer home. The inn was then sold to a Mrs Buck, who sold it on to a Mrs Bunney and its liquor license was removed. Mrs Bunney left the Inn to the National Trust in 1949 on condition it remained a Temperance Inn.
The River Rawthey from the footbridge at Cautley, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
The River Rawthey flows from the summit of Baugh Fell to join the River Lune at Sedbergh.
Late 19th century cast iron milestone near Rawthey Bridge, Cautley on the A683 beween Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria.
Holy Trinity Church, Howgill in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
The church, built in 1838 next to Chapel Beck, was designed by Edmund Sharpe.
Howgill, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Holy Trinity Church, a red telephone box and Chapel Beck in the picturesque hamlet of Howgill.
Howgill near Sedbergh, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
A Swaledale ewe with her lambs walk down the narrow road through the picturesque hamlet of Howgill within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Cycling along Fairmile Road, the course of a Roman road above the River Lune, Howgill, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Fairmile Road, the course of a Roman road above the River Lune, Howgill, Sedbergh, England, UK.
Crook of Lune Bridge, Howgill, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
An ancient narrow road bridge over the River Lune believed to be 16th century or earlier. The bridge forms part of an ancient north-south route along Lunesdale, used in 17th and 18th centuries by drovers.
A view of Sedbergh from the Dales Way at Millthrop in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Summer garden at Millthrop near Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Main Street in the market town, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Main Street in the market town, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
The Dales and Lakes Book Centre, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Cumbria.
Abracadabra, one of many unique and colourful shops in the market town of Sedbergh, within the Western Dales of Cumbria.
The Green Door Sweet Shop. A traditional sweet shop in a 17th century building. One of many unique and colourful shops in the market town of Sedbergh, within the Western Dales of Cumbria.
The war memorial in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria.
The lych gate of St. Andrew's Church, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales of Cumbria.
A lych gate is a roofed gateway to a churchyard, formerly used at burials for sheltering a coffin until the clergyman's arrival.
St Andrew's dates from about 1130, but there was major restoration work in 1886 by the architects, Austin and Paley of Lancaster.
St. Andrew's Church and graveyard, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
The church dates from about 1130, but there was major restoration work in 1886 by the architects, Austin and Paley of Lancaster.
St. Andrew's Church, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales of Cumbria.
The church dates from about 1130, but there was major restoration work in 1886 by the architects, Austin and Paley of Lancaster.
Sedbergh School Chapel, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
The chapel of the independent Sedbergh School was built in 1897 to a design by Austin and Paley of Lancaster.
Drinking fountain, Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria.
This fountain with side-benches was erected in 1897 when Finkle Street was widened. It commemorated the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Castlehaw, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
The two grassy mounds at Castleshaw are the site of a wooden motte and bailey castle. This defensive Norman fortification would have been a great vantage point to guard the Rawthey, Garsdale and Dentdale valleys from Scottish attack. The oval motte (on which would have stood the keep) is about nine metres high and is surrounded by a five metre ditch and a steep drop to the south. The lower and larger bailey (a fenced courtyard which would have contained living accommodation and possibly an area for livestock) is thirty metres in length.
Farfield Mill, Sedbergh, Cumbria.
Farfield Mill is a restored Victorian woollen mill with working looms exhibitions and a cafe. Open to the public with entrance charge.
Sedbergh School Library, Cumbria.
The original site of Sedbergh School, founded in 1525 as a chantry school by Roger Lupton, Provost of Eton. The library building, built in 1716, originally housed classrooms. The geologist, Adam Sedgwick of Dent and William Wordsworth’s son were both pupils at the school. Coleridge’s popular but eccentric and alcoholic son, Hartley, taught here in 1837. The school became a grammar school in 1551, then independent in 1875.
Cricket ground at Sedbergh School in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria.
The school is a co-educational boarding school with strong sporting traditions.
The Pepperpot on the former Akay Estate in Sedbergh, Cumbria.
Some say the Pepperpot was built in the early 20th century as an isolation house for the estate owner's daughter who had tuberculosis, but it is more likely to have just been an ornamental feature or summerhouse of the estate.
The folly fell into ruin and was rebuilt in 2015 thanks to a grant awarded to Sedbergh School from the Heritage Lottery Fund.