Coniston B&B, Bed and Breakfast

Coniston is a village in the southern Lake District National Park, between Coniston Water and Coniston Old Man on the A593 between Broughton-in-Furness and Ambleside. Nearby, off the B5285 is Tarn Hows, a popular viewpoint.

It developed as a result of both farming and the local copper and slate mines. It grew in popularity as a tourist location during Victorian times, due in part to a branch of the Furness Railway. Coniston is now popular for hill-walking and rock-climbing. There are excellent walks on the nearby Furness Fells and in Grizedale Forest, with some of good rock on Dow Crag, three miles from the village, with plenty of Coniston b&bs to base yourself from. The poet and social critic John Ruskin bought the country house Brantwood on the shores of Coniston Water in 1871. The Water is also known as the place that Donald Campbell died in 1967 when attempting to break his own world water speed record. There are hotels and guesthouses offering bed and breakfast (b&b) and a youth hostel within two miles of the village centre.


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