SEDBERGH  , a

market town in the Skipton parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 28z m . S.S.E. of Penrith by a branch of the London & North-Western railway . Pop . (1901) 2430 . It is pleasantly situated at the junction of several small streams forming the river Lune, in a deep valley surrounded by high-lying moors . The church of St Andrew is principally late Norman . The grammar school was founded by Dr Roger Lupton, provost of Eton College, in 1528, but as it was connected with a chantry it was suppressed by Henry VIII., to be refounded in 1551 by Edward VI.; it now takes rank among the important public schools .