Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AVON (The), or Middle Avon

AVON (The), or Middle Avon, a river of Gloucester. It rises on the Cotswolds, SE of Alderley; and runs about 15 miles north-westward, past Wootton-under-Edge, to the estuary of the Severn in the vicinity of Berkeley.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: AVON     |     AVON THE     |     AVON THE OR MIDDLE AVON     |     MIDDLE AVON     |     THE AVON

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