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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.

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Avon was a new county formed under the Local Government Act of 1972. It was based upon Bristol, Bath, and Weston‐super‐Mare, but incorporated a slice of Gloucestershire, and a part of 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.

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Avon Former county in sw England, created in 1974 from areas of Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Bath and North-East Somerset, Bristol, North-West Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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