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Ulverton may refer to: * Ulverton, Quebec, a municipality of Quebec, Canada * Ulverton River, a tributary of the Saint-François River, in Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada * ''Ulverton'' (novel), the first novel by British writer Adam Thorpe See also * Ulverston, Cumbria, England, formerly in Lancashire * Ulverstone, Tasmania Ulverstone is a town on the northern coast of Tasmania, Australia on the mouth of the River Leven (Tasmania), River Leven, on Bass Strait. It is on the Bass Highway (Tasmania), Bass Highway, west of Devonport, Tasmania, Devonport and east of ...
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Ulverton, Quebec
Ulverton is a municipality in Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. Prior to December 15, 1999, it was in Drummond Regional County Municipality in the Centre-du-Québec region. Demographics Population Language Mother tongue (2011) See also *List of municipalities in Quebec __FORCETOC__ Quebec is the second-most populous province in Canada with 8,501,833 residents as of 2021 and is the largest in land area at . For statistical purposes, the province is divided into 1,282 census subdivisions, which are m ... References External links Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Estrie {{Quebec-geo-stub ...
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Ulverton River
The Ulverton River is a tributary of the Saint-François River, flowing on the South Shore of the Saint-Laurent river, in the administrative region of Estrie, in Quebec, Canada. The course of the Ulverton river crosses the territories of: * the regional county municipality (MRC) of Le Val-Saint-François (administrative region of Estrie): Maricourt, Racine and Melbourne; * the MRC of Drummond Regional County Municipality (administrative region of Centre-du-Québec): municipalities of Durham-Sud and Ulverton. Geography The main neighboring hydrographic slopes of the Ulverton River are: * north side: Saint-Germain River; * east side: Saint-François River; * south side: rivière au Saumon, Brandy stream, Fraser River; * west side: rivière le Renne, Saint-Germain River, Yamaska River. The Ulverton River flows approximately northeast to its mouth. It constitutes the main hydrographic slope of the municipality of Ulverton. The Ulverton river has its source in a mountain ...
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Ulverton (novel)
''Ulverton'' is the first novel by British author Adam Thorpe. The work recounts 300 years of history in the fictional village of Ulverton, stylistically representing the literary eras of the day."English literature." ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Access Date September 13, 2008. www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/188217/English-literature. The novel won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize The Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize was presented from 1967 until 2003 by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year. It is named after the novelist Winifred Holtby who was noted for her novels set in the rural scenes ... in 1992. References 1992 British novels Historical novels Secker & Warburg books {{1990s-hist-novel-stub ...
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Ulverston
Ulverston is a market town and a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of 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 to the east, Barrow-in-Furness to the south-west and Kendal to the north-east. History 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 kn ...
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