CONISTON (COLD), a township in the parish of
GARGRAVB, eastern division of the wapentake of
STAINCLIFFE-and-EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK,
5 miles (N. W. by W.) from Skipton, containing 345
inhabitants. On a lofty mount near the village is an
oval encampment, supposed to be Danish. Tradition
relates that at a place called Sweet-Gap, on the northwestern
side of Coniston moor, the inhabitants endeavoured
to arrest the progress of a party of Scottish invaders,
and nearly the whole of them were killed.