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Coniston Water

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Coniston Water

Lake in the Cumbrian Lake District, England. It has a length of 8 km/5 mi and a width of 1 km/0.6 mi, which makes it one of the smaller lakes in the area. The village of Coniston (population (2001) 1,900) lies 14 km/9 mi west of Bowness-on-Windermere, between the lake and Coniston Old Man, which is 802 m/2631 ft high.

Donald Campbell died while attempting to improve his world water-speed record on Coniston Water in 1967.

Peel Island, one of three small islands on the lake, is the ‘Wild Cat Island’ of Arthur Ransome's novel Swallows and Amazons (1931). Brantwood, once the home of John Ruskin, stands above the eastern shore of Coniston Water; Ruskin is buried in Coniston churchyard.



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