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  • Dentdale is the valley of the Dent in Cumbria in northwest England, just southwest of Bunting's native Northumbria; Brigflatts (the Quaker meeting house where Bunting is buried, to be distinguished from Briggflatts the poem, with an extra g) is at its west end, just southwest of Sedbergh (with a silent g).

    languagehat.com: YAN TAN TETHERA. 2005

  • Underwinder, in the parish of Sedbergh, Yorkshire, in 1603; died 7

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • With outstretched hand he pointed upwards, insisting that that church, the beautiful building, the pride of Sedbergh, was not a church at all.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • So the Ensign came back and with his drawn sword struck at several Friends and cut some in the hat and some in the clothes, and so forced and drove them to Sedbergh town, where after some chief men of the parish had been spoken with, Friends were let go home in peace. '

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • He was a happy bridegroom that summer, and bringing his wife with him for the first time to Sedbergh

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • Sedbergh town had ever heard doctrine like this before.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • Now Dent was a place of importance, in those days, and looked down on even Sedbergh as a mere village.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • Wherefore to be sent off to a small farm in the outskirts of Sedbergh in search of a nest of Quakers was a paltry job at best for these fine gentlemen from Dent.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • Drawwell is situated about two miles away from Sedbergh, on the sunny slope of a hill overlooking the River Lune, that here forms the boundary between the two counties of Westmorland and Yorkshire.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • Nottinghamshire, as they did in the North, at Sedbergh and Preston

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

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