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		December 2009 This new book contains more than 200 photographs, dating from the 1850s.   It has  scenes approaching Sedbergh from the station, along Main Street, through the Market Place, Finkle Street, and then returning along Busk Lane.  It also shows some significant buildings around the town between Settlebeck,  Millthrop and Havera. Sedbergh was mentioned in the Doomsday Book and it is thought that the motte and bailey castle was built about the same time c1086. Its first market charter was obtained during the reign of Henry III  in 1251 possibly legalising an existing informal market.  A new market charter was granted by Henry VIII in 1538.  Roger Lupton founded a chantry school that became The Free Grammar School of King Edward VI and subsequently Sedbergh School. He served the crown during the reigns of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII and was a Provost of Eton. Sedbergh is now England’s Book Town.  The town is twinned with Zrece in Slovenia and the twinning process was featured on national TV. Sedbergh and District History Society has been collecting information and photographs relating to the local area to build an archive for local people and for research.  The society is grateful to all who have given or allowed pictures to be  copied.  Further information is welcomed.  £10 obtainable from the HISTORY SOCIETY ROOM above the Tourist  Information Centre in Sedbergh, in local shops or by post at £11.50, to include postage from SDHS Publications, c/o 72A, Main Street, SEDBERGH, Cumbria. LA10 5AD.  © Sedbergh & District History Society
£5 obtainable from the HISTORY SOCIETY ROOM above the Yorkshire Dales Information Centre in Sedbergh or by post from SDHS Publications, c/o 72A, Main Street, SEDBERGH, Cumbria. LA10 5AD © Sedbergh & District History Society		Dr Roger Lupton 1456 - 1540 The history of an important, but little known, sixteenth century figure. Roger Lupton was born in obscurity. He served the crown during the reigns of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. He was a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor. The buildings constructed while he was Provost of Eton continue to be appreciated today. The chantry school that he set up in Sedbergh, the town of his birth, has continued. It was known firstly as The Free Grammar School of Roger Lupton then in 1551 it became the Free Grammar School of King Edward VI. In the nineteenth century it became Sedbergh School. Richard Cann was formerly Director of Studies at Sedbergh School Elspeth Griffiths Sedbergh School Archivist

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