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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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TRAGEDY struck on Coniston Water in the Lake District on January 4, 1967, when Donald Campbell was killed as he attempted to break his own water speed record in his jet-powered boat Bluebird K7.
Remember When? 1967 by Birmingham Mail (England)
Gina Campbell fixed the first rivet in the craft, which was recovered from the bottom of Coniston Water in the Lake District in 2001 and is being restored.
SPEED ACE'S DAUGHTER BACKS WORK TO REBUILD HIS DREAM by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Now the engine from Bluebird is being taken from a North Shields workshop to a museum on the shore of Coniston Water in the Lake District.
Bluebird bonus; Museum is to get engine from craft by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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