Coniston Water
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird craft has been fired up on Coniston Water for the first time since the daredevil pilot's fatal crash on the lake almost 60 years ago.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Setting seven world water speed records between 1955 and 1964, Bluebird was recovered from Coniston Water in 2001 with its restoration led by Tyneside engineer Bill Smith.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
The Ruskin Museum is aiming to run Bluebird again on Coniston Water at some point next year when it will be piloted by Australian Dave Warby, son of the late-water speed world-record holder Ken Warby.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025
Donald Campbell, a forty-six-year-old serial speed-record holder, died while attempting to break his own world water-speed record, on Coniston Water, in the Lake District.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
They settled for a while at Tent Lodge on Coniston Water, in a land of hospitable Marshalls.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
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