Coniston Water

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 by area. The lake has a length of , a maximum width of , and a maximum depth of . Its outflow is the River Crake, which drains into Morcambe Bay via the estuary of the River Leven. The lake is in the unitary authority of Westmorland and Furness, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria. Coniston Water is situated within Furness, part of the North Lonsdale exclave of the historic county of Lancashire. It has been within the ceremonial county of Cumbria since 1974, and the Westmorland and Furness district since it replaced South Lakeland in 2023. The lake is an example of a ribbon lake formed by glaciation. The lake sits in a deep U-shaped glaciated valley scoured by a glacier in the surrounding volcanic and limestone rocks during the last ice age. To the north-west of the lake rises the Old Man of Coniston, the highest fell in the Coniston Fells group and the highest point in the historic county of Lancashire. " 'The king's estate or village'. The second el.[ement] is OE tūn, and the whole name may, like numerous English Kingstons, be from OE 'cyninges-tūn'. ... Scand[inavian] influence is, meanwhile, shown by the '-o-' of early and modern spellings, and Ekwall speculated that this could have been the centre of a 'small Scandinavian mountain kingdom' ". Plus "OE 'wæter', with the meaning probably influenced by its ON relative 'vatn'." (OE=Old English; ON=Old Norse). Remains of agricultural settlements from the Bronze Age have been found near the shores of Coniston Water. The Romans mined copper from the fells above the lake. A potash kiln and two iron bloomeries show that industrial activity continued in medieval times. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Coniston Water was an important source of fish for the monks of Furness Abbey who owned the lake and much of the surrounding land. Copper mining continued in the area until the 19th century.

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Concepts associés (8)

Lakistes

Le mot Lakiste, formé à partir de l'anglais lake qui veut dire lac, désigne les poètes de la fin du et du début du . Leur surnom vient du fait qu'ils ont décrit le Lake District, la région du nord-ouest de l'Angleterre, où ils avaient décidé de vivre. Les trois plus célèbres des poètes qui appartinrent à ce mouvement furent William Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robert Southey ; ils publièrent en 1798, un recueil collectif anonyme de Ballades lyriques qui contient entre autres le chef-d'œuvre de Coleridge : la Ballade du vieux marin.

Brantwood

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. Brantwood is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and buildings in the grounds are also listed. Brant is an old Norse word meaning "steep" and the house and grounds are situated on a steep wooded area overlooking the lake.

Furness

vignette|La Stone Cross Mansion située à Ulverston Furness est une péninsule du sud de la Cumbria, en Angleterre. Au sens le plus large, elle couvre la totalité de North Lonsdale, la partie du qui forme une exclave du comté historique du Lancashire. La région est divisée en Bas Furness et Haut Furness. Le Bas Furness est la péninsule, quand le Haut Furness correspond à la partie nord de la région, qui faisait partie du North Lonsdale mais ne fait pas partie de la péninsule en elle-même.