Coniston Water is a lake in the Lake District in North West England. It is the third largest by volume, after Windermere and Ullswater, and the fifth-largest...
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west of the village of Coniston and the lake, Coniston Water. The fell is sometimes known by the alternative name of Coniston Old Man, or simply The Old...
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nose-dive into the water. Campbell's new boat was a success. In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, he took it to Coniston Water and increased his...
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Donald Campbell (category Water speed records)
speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England. Donald Malcolm Campbell...
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District National Park, between Coniston Water, the third longest lake in the Lake District, and Coniston Old Man. Coniston is 25 miles (40 km) northeast...
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Bluebird K7 (redirect from Coniston Bluebird)
a bid for his eighth water speed record, with his aim to raise the record to over 300 miles per hour (480 km/h) on Coniston Water. In 1996, a diving team...
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Cumbria Way (section Stage 1: Ulverston to Coniston)
through the towns of Coniston and Keswick. The route cuts through Lakeland country via Coniston Water, Langdale, Borrowdale, Derwent Water, Skiddaw Forest...
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Brotherswater Buttermere Coniston Water Crummock Water Derwent Water Devoke Water Elter Water Ennerdale Water Esthwaite Water Grasmere Haweswater Reservoir...
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Coniston Water. Between them is flat country and Esthwaite Water. West of Coniston Water is the highest range, the Coniston Fells, with the Coniston Old...
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Coniston in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coniston may refer to: Coniston (Northern Territory), a cattle station Coniston massacre, 1928 Coniston,...
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of water in the lake (the diameter of the drop is proportional to the cube root of the lake's volume). Bassenthwaite Lake Buttermere Coniston Water Crummock...
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Coniston Hall is a former house on the west bank of Coniston Water in the English Lake District. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England...
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Furness Railway (section Coniston Water)
Copper mining interests at Coniston promoted the Coniston Railway, running from the Furness Railway at Broughton to Coniston and on to the copper mines...
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languages; ie Cumbric language) and means rocky stream. The river drains Coniston Water from its southernmost point and flows for about 6 miles (9.5 km) in...
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and heritage of Coniston Water and the Lake District. The museum is a registered charity in England & Wales, constituted as The Coniston Institute and Ruskin...
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the Lake District national park, it is where the River Crake (fed by Coniston Water) flows into the River Leven (fed by Windermere), beginning the Leven...
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Lake retention time (redirect from Residence time of lake water)
residence time of lake water, or the water age or flushing time) is a calculated quantity expressing the mean time that water (or some dissolved substance)...
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Isle of Athelney Isle of Axholme Barrow Island Brown's Island, Rutland Water Cobholm Island, part of Great Yarmouth Isle of Dogs Isle of Elmley (part...
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England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of the village of Coniston and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Coniston Water. Farming has always played an important part in Torver's...
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John Ruskin (redirect from The Younger Lady of the Thwaite Coniston)
Linton, the then somewhat dilapidated Brantwood house, on the shores of Coniston Water, in the English Lake District, paying £1500 for it. Brantwood was Ruskin's...
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and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake....
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Cumbria, England. It is located between Coniston Water and Little Langdale, almost isolated from the neighbouring Coniston Fells by Yewdale Beck. Holme Fell...
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Salvelinus willughbii (category Cold water fish)
that inhabit Lake Windermere, Coniston Water, Wast Water, Ennerdale Water, Buttermere, Crummock Water, and Lowes Water in The Lake District of Cumbria...
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Brantwood is a historic house museum in Cumbria, England, overlooking Coniston Water. It has been the home of a number of prominent people. The house and...
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islands of Coniston Water in the English Lake District, Cumbria. The two others are Fir Island (which is connected to the shore unless the water is particularly...
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again by her family. In 1997, her body was discovered by divers in Coniston Water and Gordon Park was arrested on suspicion of murder. Reputedly he said...
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number of elements from Peel Island in Coniston Water) while the fells and surrounding hills resemble the Coniston area more closely. Coot Club and The...
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Coniston itself is Croydon, New Hampshire (where Durkee lived), Brampton is Newport, Harwich is Claremont, Clovelly is Cornish, and "Coniston Water"...
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England. It is situated between the much larger lakes of Windermere and Coniston Water, in the traditional county of Lancashire; since 1974 in the county of...
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damming. This table includes the ten largest fresh water bodies by area. Lough Neagh is the largest water body in the UK by this measure, although Loch Ness...
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