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Alfred Wainwright once compared Coniston in the southern Lake District with Zermatt way up in the Swiss Alps — saying each seemed to have a particularly strong affinity with their nearest mountains.

IT seems to me that a cloud of happiness hangs over the Lake District because every time I go a huge smile stays fixed across my face. It’s a place of beauty where I can collect my thoughts and enjoy ...

In and around the Cumbrian village of Coniston, many aspects of the English Lake District’s history, heritage and geography converge. You would expect a place with a mining past to perhaps look a ...

DARREN KELSO and his family enjoy a cottage holiday in Coniston. I’VE enjoyed many a trip to the Lake District, every time being happily reminded of its beautiful combination of majestic mountains and ...

THE Coppermines Lakes Cottages, the holiday accommodation company, started in the 1980s when founder Phil Johnston bought derelict mine buildings in Coppermines Valley above Coniston village. He has ...