The Old Man of Coniston is a fell in the English Lake District. It is 803m high, and lies to the west of the village of Coniston and the lake of the same name, Coniston Water. The fell is sometimes known by the alternate name of Coniston Old Man.
The area between Coniston and the Old Man is much scarred by slatequarries and mines. The fell is normally climbed from Coniston village via Chruch Beck and the mines. Alternative routes include the south ridge, which ascends the mountain from the Walna Scar Road, a track that leaves Coniston from the southwest.
The Old Man of Coniston is linked by a ridge to Brim Fell.
There is also a beer brewed by the Coniston Brewery that is known as Old Man.
Coniston is a village in the region of Furness, the area of Lancashire that moved into the administrative county of Cumbria, in the United Kingdom.
Coniston grew as both a farming village, and to serve local copper and slatemines.
Coniston is a popular spot for hill-walking and rock-climbing; there are fine walks to be had on the nearby Furness Fells and Grizedale Forest, and some of the finest rock in the Lake District on the eastern face of Dow Crag, three miles from the village.
The south of this region is lower forests and knolls, with Kirkby Moor on the southern boundary.
The South Eastern area is the territory between Coniston Water and Windermere and east of Windermere.
The line to Coniston opened in 1848 (although until 1857 this was only linked to the national network with ferries between Fleetwood and Barrow-in-Furness); the line from Penrith through Keswick to Cockermouth in 1865; and the line to Lakeside at the foot of Windermere in 1869.
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