Coniston Water
Britishnoun
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In total, Campbell set seven water speed world records piloting Bluebird, including four on Coniston Water, between 1955 and 1964.
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
Crowds gathered to welcome Donald Campbell's Bluebird craft as it returned to the Lake District 57 years after its pilot was killed in a crash on Coniston Water.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
The hydroplane's wreckage was recovered in 2001 after its pilot was killed in a crash on Coniston Water in 1967.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
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
At my request she extended the drive to Coniston Water, some miles away, and on to Brantwood, the place Mr. Ruskin afterwards bought of Mr. Joseph Cowen, who held a mortgage of �7,000 upon it.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob
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