Ulverston is a market town and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. Historically in Lancashire, it lies a few miles sout…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 39 miles to the east, Barrow-in-Furness 10 miles to the south-west and Kendal 25 miles to the north-east. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 11,524, increasing at the 2011 census to 11,678.