Ulverston, a market town in northwestern England, is situated a mile inland from the shore of Morecambe Bay. Despite this distance from the sea, the town was designated as a seaport in the late 1700s, to get around paying sea duty on certain goods which could be shipped on to canal routes. To improve access to the town a canal was built, its total length is just 1.35 miles (2 km long) and along its whole length, the canal is entirely straight, leading to Ulverston Canal being described as the…
