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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 Oxford Companion to British History Avon was a new county, formed under the Local...Steep Holme. The name was taken from the river Avon, which runs through Bath and Bristol. There...Somerset. The county town was Bristol. Avon was abolished in 1996. J. A. Cannon
Lower Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Lower Avon river: see Avon 1, river, England.
Upper Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Upper Avon river: see Avon 3, river, England.
East Avon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition East Avon river: see Avon 2, 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...
Warwickshire
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Cotswold Hills in the s , and is drained chiefly by the River Avon. Cereals are the principal crops, and dairy cattle and...1992 pop. 116,299), Kenilworth and Stratford upon Avon all draw considerable numbers of tourists. Area: 1981sq...
New Forest National Park
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Hampshire, between the cities of Bournemouth and Southampton, it is roughly bounded by the River Avon, the Solent, Southampton Water, and the River Blackwater. William I organized the area in 1079 as a royal forest to provide revenue and timber...
Bath
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Bath Spa city on the River Avon, sw England. Bath has been designated a world heritage site. Its hot springs were discovered in the 1st century ad by the Romans...
Old Sarum
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to 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...
ENGLISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...Celtic usage appear to survive in such river names as Itchen , Soar , Tamar...survive in adapted forms, such as the river names Avon (‘water’...Romano-British Danum , the name of a river), Gloucester (‘bright...

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.
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.
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...
canal system
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Thames, and Warwickshire Avon. The first modern development...St Helens coal to the river Mersey and Liverpool...route independent of any river. When completed in 1767...tying both to the river Severn; the Thames and...through the Kennet and Avon Canal (1810), and Leeds...
Leicestershire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...itself almost exactly in the middle, on the river Soar. The western boundary with Warwickshire...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...
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...

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Life Mag: Rambling: Delightful stroll on banks of the picturesque Avon ; BIDFORD AND WELFORD RIVER WALK
Newspaper article from: Evening Mail; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...walkers on a delightful walk by the river Avon around Bidford and Welford - I would...off to descend to the banks of the river Avon at Welford on Avon walking the Avon...descend steps down to the banks of the river Avon. A stile at the bottom will allow...
Life Mag: Rambling: Delightful stroll on banks of the picturesque Avon; BIDFORD AND WELFORD RIVER WALK.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 9/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...walkers on a delightful walk by the river Avon around Bidford and Welford - I would...off to descend to the banks of the river Avon at Welford on Avon walking the Avon...descend steps down to the banks of the river Avon. A stile at the bottom will allow...
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 ; ...Gallery. The first part of the show, River Avon part one, saw more than 20,000...encapsulating the atmosphere and feel of the River Avon, from the bridges and weirs of Bath...hardback book devoted to Jackson's River Avon project has been produced in association...
River Avon consultation is praised.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 7/6/2004; 404 words ; ...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...
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...complete disregard" to the River Avon. John Webb, Avon and Wiltshire...them on boat trips along the river to show exactly what they...replicated along the length of the Avon through Western Riverside...
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...140 years later dockisation of the River Avon is once again on the agenda and poses...many years a small stretch of the River Avon, known locally as Sea Mills Reach...
WALK OF THE WEEK: RIVER AVON AND UNION CANAL, LINLITHGOW
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 4/1/2007; ; 664 words ; ...with the nearby Union Canal and River Avon. DISTANCE: 7 miles. HEIGHT CLIMBED...Burgh Mills Lane (signposted to the River Avon Heritage Trail). Just before the...then drops down to the side of the River Avon and over a small wooden footbridge...
Opposition sinks river boating plan; COUNTY COUNCIL REJECTS MOVE TO OPEN UP STRETCH OF AVON.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 9/18/2004; 636 words ; ...craft to use more of the River Avon has been scuppered by a...and tranquillity of the river would be lost. County council...John Deegan said a widened Avon could result in 7,000...Hundreds of people want the River Avon to stay as it is
Tragic death of OAP found in River Avon.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 8/3/2001; 551 words ; ...of Millers Close, Welford-on-Avon, who went missing after being seen...village's Western Church towards the River Avon at 9.30am on New Year's Day...caught up in 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...of his journey - from Bath to the river's mouth - have gone on view. Since...Bristol, through the spectacular Avon gorge - a view which has been admired...