Ulverston
Sign in to saveUlverston is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it lies a few miles south of the Lake District National Park and just north-west of Morecambe Bay, within the Furness Peninsula. Lancaster is to the east, Barrow-in-Furness to the south-west and Kendal to the north-east. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 11,524, increasing at the 2011 census to 11,678.
Key facts
- COA wide.crest
- Out of a coronet composed of four roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper set upon a rim Or a demi wolf Sable breathing flames and gorged with a leather collar Proper buckled and pendent therefrom by a chain an escutcheon Gold charged with a ray of lightning throughout in bend also Gules surmounted of an ankh Vert and supporting a garb also Gold.
- COA wide.mantling
- Gules doubled Argent.
- COA wide.motto
- Optimum Sufficit (Only The Best Is Enough)
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Ulverston
- UK place.type
- Town and parish
- UK place.static_image_name
- Market Street, Ulverston - geograph.org.uk - 1731488.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Market Street, Ulverston
- UK place.population
- 11,678
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.population_demonym
- Ulverstonian
- UK place.civil_parish
- Ulverston
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Barrow and Furness
- UK place.post_town
- ULVERSTON
- UK place.postcode_district
- LA12
- UK place.postcode_area
- LA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01229
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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 Lake District National Park and just north-west of Morecambe Bay, within the Furness Peninsula. Lancaster is to the east, Barrow-in-Furness to the south-west and Kendal to the north-east. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 11,524, increasing at the 2011 census to 11,678.
==History== thumb|right|Hoad Hill and the Hoad Monument, a near replica of the third Eddystone Lighthouse The name Ulverston, first noted as Ulurestun in the Domesday Book of 1086, consists of an Old Norse personal name, Úlfarr, or the Old English Wulfhere, with the Old English tūn, meaning farmstead or village. The personal names Úlfarr and Wulfhere both imply "wolf warrior" or "wolf army", which explains the presence of a wolf on the town's coat of arms. The loss of the initial W in Wulfhere can be linked to Scandinavian influence in the region. Locally, the town has traditionally been known as Oostan. Other variants include Oluestonam (1127), and Uluereston (1189). The name was spelled "Ulverstone" until at least 1888.