Above a years a town has been a birthplace of many noted population. Sir John Barrow, born at Dragley Beck, was the Admiralty's Second Secretary: the good deal further significant position than Number 1 Secretary. A town of Barrow, Alaska, the United States' most northertly town, is known as fallowing him. The monument to him - the reproduction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse - stands on Hoad Hill overlooking a town. Comedian Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame and Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials, were also born there.

In the Domesday Book, the town was known as 'Ulvreston' & was of sufficient note to receive the Market Charter around 1280. Ulverstin keeps its old market town appearance, & market times come held on Thursdays & Saturdays.

A town is assault the Furness peninsula, close to a Lake District, and good n of Morecambe Bay. Ulverston railway station, which serves the town, is placed on the Furness Line from Barrow-in-Furness to Lancaster.

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