Furness
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Furness is a peninsula and region of Cumbria, England. Together with the Cartmel Peninsula it forms North Lonsdale, historically an exclave of Lancashire. On 1 April 2023 it became part of the new unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness.
View from the slopes of Dow Crag in the Coniston Fells.
The ruins of Furness Abbey, just north of Barrow
Barrow Island in 1890
Jubilee Bridge, linking Barrow Island and Walney Island
Ulverston
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Ulverston is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 11,524, increasing at the 2011 census to 11,678. 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 39 miles (63 km) to the east, Barrow-in-Furness 10 miles (16 km) to the south-west and Kendal 25 miles (40 km) to the north-east.
Market Street, Ulverston
Hoad Hill and the Hoad Monument, a near replica of the third Eddystone Lighthouse
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy statue; Stan Laurel was born in Ulverston in 1890, and named Arthur Jefferson.
Laurel and Hardy Museum