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The perfect introduction to Wainwright's Lake District world - a stay in a cosy cottage overlooking the rambler's delight of Coniston

Alfred Wainwright once compared Coniston in the southern Lake District with Zermatt way up in the Swiss Alps, writes Tom Chesshyre. And after visiting, he can see why.

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