River Avon (Old Brythonic abona, "river") is the name of many rivers:
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... Avon Ring Legend Worcester and Birmingham Canal Kings Norton Junction Brandwood Tunnel (320m) Wast Hills Tunnel (2495m) 19 locks Kingswood Shotwood Tunnel (560m ... The constituent waterways of the Avon Ring are River Avon River Severn Worcester and Birmingham Canal Stratford-on-Avon Canal Starting from Stratford-upon-Avon, and travelling in a ... The River Avon is a navigation, and so each lock is accompanied by a weir, to maintain the flow of the river ...
... There are two rivers in Wiltshire, England, named Avon River Avon (Bristol), which flows through the north of the county and into the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth, Bristol River Avon (Hampshire), which flows ...
... All English rivers discharging into the Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel from the M48 Severn Bridge south and west to Morte Point, North Devon ... Bristol Avon catchment River Avon (MS) River Trym (R) Hazel Brook (R) River Frome (R) River Malago (The Malago) (L) Brislington Brook (L) Siston Brook (R) River Chew (L) River Boyd (R ...
... In 1963 the Environment Agency constructed a river level measuring station consisting of one of the earliest compound crump weirs in Britain ... The typical river level range is between 16 and 75 centimetres ... During the widespread flooding in 2007, the river level reached 2.06 metres on the 21st of July, whilst flooding in July 1968 drowned the entire structure ...
... Sawyer’s first job as a river keeper was in 1925 on the River Avon at Lake in Wiltshire, just north of Salisbury ... to Fred Martin and managed the six miles of river around Lake House, now owned by the musician Sting ... increased pollution and large amounts of silt running into the river from surrounding farm land and the Army’s tank manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain ...
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