Ulverston

Ulverston is a south Lakeland market town that has an old world charm about it, which formerly prospered on the cotton, tanning and iron-ore industries. It is a beautiful town with zig-zagging streets off the central market place and grey, limestone cottages.

George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement, once said, 'the people of Ulverston are liars, drunkards, whoremongers and thieves and follow filthy pleasures' and one can’t help wonder, if the local tourist authority adopted this as their motto, would visitor numbers soar?

The town’s two most famous sons are Sir John Barrow, founder of the Royal Geographical Society and Stan Laurel, who is remembered at the Laurel & Hardy Museum.