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Avon
Avon [Celtic,=river], name of several rivers in England. 1 Also called Bristol Avon or Lower Avon, rising in SW England at Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and flowing 75 mi (121 km) E, S, and then NW through Bath and Bristol to the Severn River at Avonmouth. It is navigable for large vessels to... Read more
Evesham
Evesham , town (1991 pop. 15,069), Worcestershire, W central England, on the Avon River. Evesham is the center of the Vale of Evesham, known for its market gardens. It is also a popular summer resort. Simon de Montfort , leader of the revolt against Henry III, was killed in 1265 during the battle o... Read more
Hamilton
Hamilton town (1991 pop. 51,667), South Lanarkshire, S central Scotland, near the confluence of the Avon and the Clyde rivers. Once known for its coal mining, Hamilton's industries have developed to include light engineering, textiles, and food processing. It is also a market town for fruits, veget... Read more
Port Talbot
Port Talbot , town (1981 pop. 40,078), Neath Port Talbot, S Wales, at the mouth of the Avon (Afan) River on Swansea Bay. Port Talbot is a popular seaside resort. Nearby are the steelworks at Margam and the oil refinery at Baglan. ... Read more
Royal Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa , town (1991 pop. 42,953), Warwickshire, central England, on the Leam River, a tributary of the Avon. The town, with its mineral springs, is primarily a health resort largely of 19th-century growth. ... Read more
Warwickshire
Warwickshire , county (1991 pop. 477,000), 975 sq mi (2,525 sq km), central England. The county seat is Warwick . The terrain is gently rolling, with outcroppings of the Cotswold Hills in the south. The Avon, flowing southwesterly, is the chief river. There are vestiges of the ancient Forest of Ard... Read more
Christchurch
Christchurch city (1996 pop. 309,027), E South Island, New Zealand, on the Avon River. It is the third largest city in New Zealand and the commercial center of the productive Canterbury Plains. Industries include food processing, meatpacking, woolens manufacturing, aquaculture, software development... Read more
Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury , town (1991 pop. 9,454), Gloucestershire, W central England, on the Avon River near its junction with the Severn. Once noted for mustard production, its main industries are boatbuilding, flour milling, and engineering. The site was occupied c.715 by a monastery, refounded in the 12th cen... Read more
Avon
Avon former county, SW England, bordering the Severn estuary and the Bristol Channel. Created in 1974 from S Gloucestershire, Bristol, and N Somerset. it was dissolved in 1996 into four unitary authorities: South Gloucestershire, Bristol, North Somerset, and Bath and North East Somerset. ... Read more
Stratford-on-Avon
Stratford-on-Avon town (1991 pop. 20,941) and district, Warwickshire, central England, on the Avon River. A market town with light industries, Stratford owes its fame to its associations with William Shakespeare . A gabled building on Henley St., believed to be the poet's birthplace, is open to th... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "River Avon"

Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Avon [Celtic,=river], name of several rivers in England. 1 Also called Bristol Avon or Lower Avon...famous of the Avon rivers, sometimes known as Shakespeare's Avon. It rises near...SW to the Severn River near Tewkesbury...
East Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition East Avon river: see Avon 2, river, England.
Upper Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Upper Avon river: see Avon 3, river, England.
Lower Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Lower Avon river: see Avon 1, river, England.
Stratford-on-Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Stratford-on-Avon town (1991 pop. 20,941) and district, Warwickshire, central England, on the Avon River. A market town with light industries, Stratford owes its fame to...
Stratford-upon-Avon
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Stratford-upon-Avon. Birthplace of Shakespeare . For many years after the death of Shakespeare in 1616, Stratford, originally where a Roman road crossed the river, remained a small Warwickshire market town and route centre. It was...
rivers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...the river. Even small rivers were important markers...east and west of the river Lea. When England was...shires in the 11th cent. rivers were frequently the boundaries...the Tamar, Somerset Avon, Colne, Stour, Ouse...Loops and angles of rivers often provided the opportunity...at ...
canal system
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...well endowed with improvable rivers and ready access to coastal shipping. Four main phases of river navigation preceded the first...the Thames, and Warwickshire Avon. The first modern development...linked St Helens coal to the river Mersey and Liverpool (1757...London through the Kennet and ...
Bristol
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...city at the junction of the rivers Avon and Frome, just inland from...centre lay between the two rivers, just inside Gloucestershire...Redcliffe area south of the Avon (and in Somerset) quickly...enterprising enough to divert the river Frome to make a better harbour...
Leicestershire
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...exactly in the middle, on the river Soar. The western boundary...Northamptonshire followed the rivers Avon and Welland. Leicester was...the fort of the people of the river Legra—possibly...heretic and thrown into the river Swift. Parliament met at Leicester...

Dictionary entries related to "River Avon"

Avon
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Avon was a new county formed under the Local Government...north Somerset. The name was taken from the river Avon, which runs through Bath and Bristol. The county town was Bristol. Avon was abolished in 1996.
Stratford-upon-Avon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Stratford-upon-Avon a town in Warwickshire, on the River Avon, famous as the birth and burial place of William Shakespeare, which is also the site of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
canal system
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...well endowed with improvable rivers and ready access to coastal...the Thames, and Warwickshire Avon. The first modern development...linked St Helens coal to the river Mersey and Liverpool (1757...London through the Kennet and Avon Canal (1810), and Leeds and...notably of the Kennet and Avon ...
Leicestershire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...almost exactly in the middle, on the river Soar. The western boundary with Warwickshire...border with Northamptonshire followed the rivers Avon and Welland. Leicester was not far from...to overcome the liability that the main river, the Soar, was not navigable had been...
Wiltshire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...The country took its name from Wilton, on the river Wylye, a tributary of the Salisbury Avon. As Wilton declined, prosperity shifted first...Saxon period is the tiny church at Bradford on Avon , used as a cottage for many years and only rediscovered...
Berkshire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...diocese of Dorchester , just across the river in Oxfordshire, then in Winchester , and...reputations for cloth. Reading's place on the river gave it steady prosperity: in the 1720s...kept the population down. The Kennet and Avon canal in the south, opened in 1810, gave...
Mercia, kingdom of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Thames. Kent and Sussex became Mercian provinces. Wessex remained independent, but lost territory south of the rivers Thames and Avon to Mercia. The extended boundaries of Mercia were maintained by Cenwulf (796–821), but increasing...
Beddoe, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Worcestershire, England, 21 September 1826; d . Bradford-on-Avon, England, 19 July 1911) physical anthropology. Beddoe suffered...Boyd-Dawkins, Cartailhac, Deniker, John Evans, Pitt-Rivers, and Ridgeway. His Races of Britain is dedicated “...
Bristol
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Bristol A city at the junction of the rivers Avon and Frome. It is not recorded before c. 1020, but by 1066 was a flourishing port. The Normans built there one of the key strategic...
Old Sarum
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Old Sarum was the original site of the city of Salisbury, abandoned in 1220 for the situation closer to the river Avon. By Tudor times it was totally deserted. It continued to return two members of Parliament until 1832 and became a symbol of the old regime.

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Artist Kurt charts the changing face of the River Avon in Bath ; A new exhibition of paintings by nationally acclaimed artist Kurt Jackson looks at the different faces of the Avon as it flows through Bath
Newspaper article from: Bath Chronicle, The; 8/6/2009; 696 words ; ...visual document of the river." William Packer...fields towards Bradford on Avon. This is my first memory of this fine English river." He added: "Over...several projects about rivers - in this country and...continent. To follow a river from its source as it...to Jackson's River ...
Waterpark would destroy wildlife in the River Avon
Newspaper article from: Bristol Evening Post; 3/20/2002; 426 words ; ...dockising" the whole course of the tidal River Avon. The purpose of this earlier scheme...years later dockisation of the River Avon is once again on the agenda and poses...years a small stretch of the River Avon, known locally as Sea Mills Reach...
River Avon consultation is praised.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 7/6/2004; 348 words ; ...plans to dredge and widen parts of the River Avon through south Warwickshire has closed...to the council cabinet. The Upper Avon Navigation consultation focuses on opening up the stretch of the River Avon between Stratford and Warwick. The...
WALK OF THE WEEK: RIVER AVON AND UNION CANAL, LINLITHGOW
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 4/1/2007; ; 657 words ; ...with the nearby Union Canal and River Avon. DISTANCE: 7 miles. HEIGHT CLIMBED...Mills Lane (signposted to the River Avon Heritage Trail). Just before the...heritage trail - and pass under the Avon Viaduct. The path then drops down...
Pressure put on developers to make more of river Avon
Newspaper article from: Bath Chronicle, The; 7/30/2007; 700+ words ; A River users' pressure group has accused the...paying "complete disregard" to the River Avon. John Webb, Avon and Wiltshire chairman of the Inland Waterways...centre replicated along the length of the Avon through Western Riverside. This would...
Tragic death of OAP found in River Avon.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 8/3/2001; 503 words ; ...found dead in a fast-flowing river, an inquest heard. A coroner...Millers Close, Welford-on-Avon, who went missing after being...Western Church towards the River Avon at 9.30am on New Year's...a tree in the swollen River Avon. During an inquest at Leamington...
Going with the flow ; John Hudson talks to artist Kurt Jackson about his latest pictures featuring the River Avon
Newspaper article from: Evening Post (Bristol UK); 9/14/2009; ; 644 words ; ...to fulfil his mission to paint the River Avon from source to sea and now images...Bristol, through the spectacular Avon gorge - a view which has been admired...meadows to city wharves and the busy M5 Avon bridge sounds very much like a journey...
Mystery Over Body Pulled From River Avon
Newspaper article from: Bristol Evening Post; 9/19/2002; 296 words ; A body was pulled from the River Avon in Bristol yesterday afternoon. It...the river. Police were alerted by Avon Fire Brigade after the body was spotted...investigated the incident. Last night Avon and Somerset Police were unable to...
Walk of the Week: River Avon Heritage Trail
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 12/9/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...West Lothian. The route follows the river all the way, by fields and woods...uk/about/publications/ 143_river-avonheritage-trail-leaflet Distance...and a field. This leads down to the River Avon and over a small, wooden bridge above...
Hook, Line & Sinker: Top spot for Harrell; RIVER AVON.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Sports Argus (Birmingham, England); 6/30/2001; 400 words ; Byline: Norman Worth The River Avon produced some good catches. At Twyford...weighed in 11-12-0. Lower down the Avon in Evesham, the Wychavon Festival Open...Way up the river, the Barford on Avon AC held the contest below the weir and...