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coniston water jetty landscape photographs in the english lakes landscape images lake district cumbria |
| The jetty on Coniston water. The lake is five miles long with a maximum depth of 184 feet. Coniston Water is the third largest of the lakes in the lake district. In 1871 the Victorian philosopher John Ruskin purchased Brantwood house on the eastern shores of the lake declaring the view over the lake to 'The Old Man of Coniston' to be 'the best in all of England' The writer Authur Ransome based his book 'Swallows and Amazons' on Coniston Water | ![]() |
Dusk on Coniston Water |
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| of the english lakes coniston water is the third largest.This landscape photograph looks along the jetty at dusk looking across the calm waters of coniston beautiful landscape photograph of the view from the jetty across coniston water in the lake district cumbria |
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