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Coniston Water

British  
/ ˈkɒnɪstən /

noun

  1. a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Having been recovered from the bottom of Coniston Water 34 years later, it was rebuilt by a team of engineers on Tyneside.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 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

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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