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Sedgwick
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Sedgwick village
Sedgwick is located in Cumbria
Sedgwick
Sedgwick
Population 349 (2011)
OS grid reference SD508878
Civil parish
  • Sedgwick
District
  • South Lakeland
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town KENDAL
Postcode district LA8
Dialling code 015395
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament
  • Westmorland and Lonsdale
List of places
UK
England
Cumbria
54°16′48″N 2°44′46″W / 54.280°N 2.746°W / 54.280; -2.746

Sedgwick is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Kendal. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 380, decreasing at the 2011 census to 349.

Part of the historic county of Westmorland, its main points of interest are 2 Grade II listed buildings:

  • Sedgwick House, built in 1868 by Paley and Austin for the industrialist William Henry Wakefield
  • An aqueduct belonging to the drained section of the Lancaster Canal

Sizergh Castle & Garden and Levens Hall are just west of the village.

The gunpowder works in Sedgwick, powered by water from the River Kent, operated to 1935. From 1819 the works had access to the Lancaster Canal, and they were probably the cause of the rapid expansion of the village in the Victorian era.

The Lakeland Maze Farm Park is situated to the east of the village.

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