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Sedbergh in York County England History and GeographySEDBERGH, a parish in the western division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE and EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, comprising the market town of Sedbergh, and the chapelries of Dent and Garsdale, and containing 4483 inhabitants, of which number, 2022 are in the town of Sedbergh, 77 miles (W.N.W.) from York, and 260 (N.W. by N.) from London. This town is situated in a secluded vale, in a mountainous district, and contains two cotton mills, in which several persons are employed. Coal is obtained from a mine rather more than two miles distant, near which the river Rother passes. The market, now almost disused, is on Wednesday; and fairs are held on March 20th, the Wednesday in Whitsun-week, and October 29th, chiefly for live stock. A constable is annually elected by the ley payers, and a court for the recovery of small dcbts has been recently instituted. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £12. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends, Independents, and Wesleyan Methodists. The free grammar school was founded and endowed by Roger Lupton, D.D., Provost of Eton College, in the 5th of Edward VI., for all boys duly qualified to enter upon a course of classical instruction, without restriction: by his Majesty's letters patent it was ordained, that there should be one master and one usher, and twelve of the inhabitants of Sedbergh were incorporated governors: his Majesty likewise endowed the school with the rectory and church of Weston, and various messuages and lands, now producing a rental of £500, which sum is paid to the master, who allows the usher £100 per annum: the appointment to the mastership is vested in the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge, who are visitors: from thirty to forty boys are educated. Exhibitions to two fellowships and eight scholarships in St. John's College, Cambridge, were founded in favour of this school, by Dr. Lupton; one fellowship and two scholarships, in the same college, were also founded for boys from this school, by Henry Hebblethwayte, citizen and draper of London; and a further exhibition for one of the scholars, being a native of Sedbergh, to either of the Universities, is given by the governors, as the appropriation of three bequests at their disposal. A small annual sum, the interest of various bequests, is applied towards the instruction of poor children. At Howgill, in this parish, is a school, erected near the chapel, and endowed with land by John Robinson, the income of which is £26 per annum: about sixty children are instructed. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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