Coniston
Coniston is a picturesque lakeside village in the Lake District National Park. Coniston sits next to Coniston Water, the Lake District's third largest lake is the home to many attempts at the world water speed record.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Strider52, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Tompage02, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 928 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, UK
- Also known as: “Conistan” and “Coniston, Cumbria”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ruskin Museum and Brantwood.
Ruskin Museum
Museum
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ruskin Museum is a small local museum in Coniston, Cumbria, northern England. It was established in 1901 by W. G. Collingwood, an artist and antiquarian who had worked as secretary to art critic John Ruskin.
Brantwood
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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 grounds are administered by a charitable trust, the house being a museum dedicated to John Ruskin, one of its final owners.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hawkshead Hill.
Hawkshead Hill
Hamlet
Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hawkshead Hill is a hamlet in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is in the Lake District National Park. Hawkshead Hill is situated 2½ miles east of Coniston.
Coniston
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.3689° or 54° 22′ 8″ northLongitude
-3.0755° or 3° 4′ 32″ westPopulation
928Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CISOpen location code
9C6R9W9F+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1825209153OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Coniston” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կոնիստոն”
- Basque: “Coniston (Cumbria)”
- Basque: “Coniston”
- Belarusian: “Коністан”
- Cebuano: “Coniston”
- Chinese: “Coniston”
- Chinese: “科尼斯頓 (坎布里亞)”
- Chinese: “科尼斯顿 (坎布里亚)”
- Chinese: “科尼斯顿”
- Dutch: “Coniston”
- French: “Coniston”
- Georgian: “კონისტონი”
- German: “Coniston”
- Hebrew: “קוניסטון”
- Irish: “Coniston”
- Italian: “Coniston”
- Ladin: “Coniston”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Coniston (Cumbria)”
- Persian: “کنیستون، کامبریا”
- Polish: “Coniston”
- Russian: “Конистон”
- Slovenian: “Coniston”
- Spanish: “Coniston”
- Swedish: “Coniston, Cumbria”
- Swedish: “Coniston”
- Turkish: “Coniston, Cumbria”
- Ukrainian: “Коністон”
- Welsh: “Coniston”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Coniston”. Photo: Tompage02, Public domain.