 DATE: The story on Donald Campbell in Sally Williamsons typewriter  refers to Coniston as a "Cumbrian village". In 1966 Coniston was in  the county of Lancashire. The county of Cumbria didnt come into  existence until local government reorganisation in 1974. It was  formed by merging the ancient counties of Cumberland and  Westmoreland and taking the southern part of the Lake District from  Lancashire.