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    Ulverston is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it lies a few miles south of the...
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  • Ulverstone or Ulverston may refer to: Ulverston, a town in Cumbria, England, formerly known as Ulverstone Ulverstone, Tasmania, a town on the north coast...
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  • Willie Hogg (category Sportspeople from Ulverston)
    picked up another 91 wickets in 88 List A one-day games. He was born at Ulverston, then in Lancashire. His father-in-law was fellow cricketer Sonny Ramadhin...
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    runs north-east to south-west from M6 junction 36, through the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness to terminate at Biggar Bank on Walney Island. The...
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    The Ulverston Canal is a 1.25 miles (2 km) ship canal that connects the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, England with Morecambe Bay. The waterway, which is...
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    Stan Laurel (category People from Ulverston)
    in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston. Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born on 16 June 1890 in his grandparents' house in Ulverston, Lancashire, to Arthur J...
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  • Ulverston is a civil parish in the South Lakeland District of Cumbria, England. It contains 149 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage...
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    Lake District National Park. Linking the two historic Cumbrian towns of Ulverston and Carlisle, it passes through the towns of Coniston and Keswick. The...
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  • Jess Gillam (category People from Ulverston)
    24 May 1998) is a British saxophonist and BBC radio broadcaster from Ulverston, Cumbria. Gillam hosts This Classical Life on BBC Radio 3. Gillam attended...
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  • Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was created in 1894 as the Ulverston Rural District, and was renamed in 1960. It covered all of North Lonsdale...
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    Michelle Scrogham (category People from Ulverston)
    lives in the town of Ulverston, within her constituency, and has previously held posts both as town councillor and mayor for Ulverston (2022–2024), as well...
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  • Ulverston Victoria High School (UVHS) is a secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, England. It is the successor school...
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    Ulverston is a railway station on the Furness Line, which runs between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster. The station, situated 9+1⁄2 miles (15 km) north-east...
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    Ulverston Town Hall is a former municipal building on Queen Street, Ulverston, a town in Cumbria, England. The building has been converted for residential...
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  • Kate Lister (writer) (category People from Ulverston)
    sexuality and sexual behaviour. Born in Ulverston, Cumbria, she attended Ulverston Victoria High School and Ulverston Victoria Sixth Form College. She studied...
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    Low Furness & Swarthmoor, Ulverston Central, Ulverston East, Ulverston North, Ulverston South, Ulverston Town and Ulverston West. 2024–present: Following...
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    Swarthmoor is a small village near Ulverston, in Cumbria, England. Located on the Furness peninsula, it was historically part of Lancashire. Swarthmoor...
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    Canal runs from Preston into southern Cumbria and is partly in use. The Ulverston Canal which once reached to Morecambe Bay is maintained although it was...
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    (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, into a theatrical family. His father, Arthur Joseph...
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    Bank, Walney, Barrow, and Ormonde. Barrow-in-Furness Morecambe Fleetwood Ulverston Grange-over-Sands Heysham Carnforth Aldingham Arnside Bardsea Bare Bolton-le-Sands...
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    difficult link across Morecambe Bay between Ulverston and Carnforth on the main line was promoted, as the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway, by a group led by...
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    vaulting competition in England where height was measured took place at the Ulverston Football and Cricket Club, Lancashire, north of the sands, in 1843. Pole...
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    Circle) is a Bronze Age stone circle on Birkrigg Common, two miles south of Ulverston in the English county of Cumbria. It dates to between 1700 and 1400 BC...
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  • "Ulverstone" was still used in legal documents after it had been superseded by "Ulverston" in common usage. See Andrews (1966) Reed (1969), pp. 99-101 Andrews (1965)...
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  • CE Primary School, Ulverston Clifton Primary School, Clifton Coniston CE Primary School, Coniston Croftlands Infant School, Ulverston Croftlands Junior...
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    Broughton-in-Furness Cartmel Coniston Dalton-in-Furness Grange-over-Sands Hawkshead Ulverston Walney Island Cheshire Culcheth Birchwood Warrington Widnes West Yorkshire...
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    Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (category People from Ulverston)
    village of Dragley Beck, in the parish of Ulverston, Lancashire. He was a pupil at Town Bank Grammar School, Ulverston, but left at the age of 13 to found a...
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    Hoad Monument (category Ulverston)
    (133 m) Hoad Hill, near Ulverston in Cumbria, England. It commemorates Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), who was born in Ulverston. It was built in 1850 at...
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  • (11 ft 1 in) A. Hammond Bury St.Edmunds March 30, 1876 1 Edwin Woodburn Ulverston July 21, 1876 4 3.42 m (11 ft 2+1⁄2 in) Thomas Ray September 19, 1879...
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    The other major town in the area is Ulverston, at the border of Low and High Furness, and the population of Ulverston and its surrounding villages is 17...
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