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Australia

* Avon River (Mid-Coast Council), New South Wales *
Avon River (Wollongong) The Avon River, a perennial river of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment, is located in the Southern Highlands and Macarthur districts of New South Wales, Australia. Course The Avon River rises on the western slopes of the Illawarra escarpment, ...
, New South Wales *
Avon River (Gippsland, Victoria) The Avon River is a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, located in the West Gippsland region, of the Australian state of Victoria. The Avon, forms an important part of the Latrobe sub-catchment, draining the south eastern slopes ...
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Avon River (Grampians, Victoria) The Avon River, an inland intermittent river of the Wimmera catchment, located in the Grampians and Wimmera regions of the Australian state of Victoria. Rising on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, the Avon River flows north-we ...
* Avon River (Western Australia)


Canada

* Avon River (Nova Scotia) *
Avon River (Ontario) The Avon River is a river in Perth County, Ontario, Canada. Shows the river's course highlighted on a topographic map. The river was named after the River Avon in England when the town of Stratford was founded on its banks in 1832. The Avon Riv ...


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 r ...
, running from Acton Turville to Avonmouth * River Avon, Devon, running from Ryder's Hill to Bigbury (also known as River Aune) * River Avon, Warwickshire, running from Naseby to Tewkesbury (also known as Shakespeare's Avon) * River Avon, Hampshire, running from Pewsey to Christchurch (also known as Salisbury Avon) *
Avon Water, Hampshire Avon Water is a small river draining some of the southwest of the New Forest in Hampshire to The Solent. West of the upper part of its archetypally dendritic drainage basin, which has formed due to the forest's heath soil, is the due south, ...
, running from Holmsley in the New Forest to Keyhaven *
Little Avon River The Little Avon River is a small river partly in southern Gloucestershire and partly in South Gloucestershire. For much of its length it forms the boundary between the county of Gloucestershire and the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire. I ...
, 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 The River Avon (locally “Aan” /ɑːn/) is a river in the Strathspey area of the Scottish Highlands, and a tributary of the River Spey. It drains the north-eastern area of the Cairngorm Mountains and is largely contained within the Cairn ...
, running from Ben Macdui to Cragganmore * Avon Water, running from south of Darvel to Motherwell


See also

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Avon (disambiguation) Avon may refer to: *River Avon (disambiguation), several rivers Organisations *Avon Buses, a bus operating company in Wirral, England * Avon Coachworks, a car body builder established in 1919 at Warwick, England, relaunched in 1922, following ...
* List of rivers of Wales, (Welsh: ' for river, often anglicised "avon") **
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, running through Aberavon, Wales *
Aboño The Aboño (, historically Avono) is a river in northern Spain flowing through the Autonomous Community of Asturias. References Rivers of Spain Rivers of Asturias {{Spain-river-stub ...
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