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River Avon may refer to:


Australia

* Avon River (Mid-Coast Council), New South Wales * Avon River (Wollongong), New South Wales * Avon River (Gippsland, Victoria) * Avon River (Grampians, Victoria) * Avon River (Western Australia)


Canada

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Avon River (Nova Scotia) __NOTOC__ The Avon River is a small river in central Nova Scotia, Canada. A northerly flowing river, the Avon River's flow rises at an elevation of 145 metres (475 ft.) at Card and Bag Lakes on the South Mountain, a distance of approximately ...
* Avon River (Ontario)


New Zealand

* Avon River / Ōtākaro, in the Canterbury Region, where it runs through Christchurch. * Avon River (Marlborough)


United Kingdom


England

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River Avon, Bristol The River Avon is a river in the south west of England. To distinguish it from a number of other rivers of the same name, it is often called the Bristol Avon. The name 'Avon' is a cognate of the Welsh word , meaning 'river'. The Avon ...
, running from Acton Turville to Avonmouth *
River Avon, Devon The River Avon, also known as the River Aune, is a river in the county of Devon in the southwest of England. It rises in the southern half of Dartmoor National Park in an area of bog to the west of Ryder's Hill. Close to where the river leave ...
, running from Ryder's Hill to Bigbury (also known as River Aune) *
River Avon, Warwickshire The River Avon () in central England flows generally southwestwards and is a major left-bank tributary of the River Severn, of which it is the easternmost. It is also known as the Warwickshire Avon or Shakespeare's Avon, to distinguish it from ...
, running from Naseby to Tewkesbury (also known as Shakespeare's Avon) *
River Avon, Hampshire The River Avon () is in the south of England, rising in Wiltshire, flowing through that county's city of Salisbury and then west Hampshire, before reaching the English Channel through Christchurch Harbour in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and ...
, running from Pewsey to Christchurch (also known as Salisbury Avon) * Avon Water, Hampshire, running from Holmsley in the New Forest to Keyhaven * Little Avon River, running from Wickwar to Berkeley, in Gloucestershire *
Tetbury Avon The Tetbury Avon, also known as the Little Avon or the Ingleburn (Anglo-Saxon - English river), is a tributary of the Bristol Avon. It is also referred to as the River Avon (Tetbury Branch). It rises at Tetbury in Gloucestershire in the West Co ...
, a tributary of the Bristol Avon (also called Little Avon)


Scotland

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River Avon, Falkirk The Avon is a river largely in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. Course It originates, near some wind turbines, at what modern maps call Avonhead Cottage south of Upperton just west of Longriggend. Older maps show it near Avonhead just wes ...
, running from near Cumbernauld to Grangemouth * River Avon, Strathspey, running from Ben Macdui to Cragganmore *
Avon Water Avon Water, also known locally as the River Avon, is a river in Scotland, and a tributary of the River Clyde. Course The Avon Water rises in the hills on the boundary between East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire, close to the head of the Irvin ...
, running from south of Darvel to Motherwell


See also

* Avon (disambiguation) *
List of rivers of Wales This is a list of rivers of Wales, organised geographically. It is taken anti-clockwise from the Dee Estuary to the M48 Bridge that separates the estuary of the River Wye from the River Severn. Tributaries are listed down the page in an upstrea ...
, (Welsh: ' for river, often anglicised "avon") ** River Afan, running through Aberavon, Wales * Aboño or Avono (originated from the same proto-celtic root), Asturias, Spain {{geodis