A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
AVON (The), or Lower Avon, a river of Gloucester, Wilts, and Somerset. It rises near the sources of the Thames, in the vicinity of Tetbury, on the SE border of Gloucester; goes southward into Wilts, past Malmes bury, Chippenham, and Melksham, to within 1¾ mile of Trowbridge; strikes westward there 4 miles, past Brad ford, to the boundary with Somerset; goes northward 4½ miles along or near that boundary; and proceeds then westward and west-north-westward, past Bath to Keynsham, and along the boundary with Gloucester, past Bristol, to the Bristol channel at King's Road. Its length of course is about 80 miles; and its bed is chiefly a deep channel, in many places through very rich and picturesque valleys. It is navigable to Bath; and is connected thence eastward, past Bradford, Senington, Devizes, Tottenham Park, Hungerford, and Newbury, to Midgham, by the Kennet and Avon canal, with the Thames. A lighthouse at its mouth, in the Bristol channel, was constructed in 1840, is 70 feet high, and shows a fixed light visible at the distance of 13 miles.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Gloucestershire AncC Somerset AncC Wiltshire AncC |
| Place names: | AVON | AVON THE | AVON THE OR LOWER AVON | LOWER AVON | THE AVON |
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