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The village of Coniston,
close to Coniston Water, was a mining settlement from Tudor
times and prospered with the extraction of copper from the
Old Man of Coniston overlooking the village.
John Ruskin, the Victorian philosopher,
bought Brantwood house to the east of Coniston Water in 1871
and declared that the view of the Old Man of Coniston was
'the best in England'. Ruskin lived here for 27 years
and when he died the Ruskin
Museum became the village's memorial to him.
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Coniston
