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Australia

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Avon River (Mid-Coast Council) Avon River, a perennial stream of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features Avon River rises in the northern foothills of the Barrington Tops, south of Carsonville ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
* Avon River (Grampians, Victoria) *
Avon River (Western Australia) The Avon River is a river in Western Australia. A tributary of the Swan River, the Avon flows from source to mouth, with a catchment area of . Avon catchment area Lake Yealering in the Shire of Wickepin is the point of origin for the upper ...


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 (Nova Scotia), South Mountain, ...
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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

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Avon River / Ōtākaro The Avon River / Ōtākaro ( and ) flows through the centre of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, and out to an estuary, which it shares with the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River, the Avon Heathcote Estuary / Ihutai. Course The Avon follows a me ...
, in the Canterbury Region, where it runs through Christchurch. * Avon River (Marlborough)


United Kingdom


England

* River Avon, Bristol, running from Acton Turville to Avonmouth (also known as the Bristol Avon). *
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 leav ...
, 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 the 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, 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 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 ...
, 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 ...
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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 upstr ...
, (Welsh: ' for river, often anglicised "avon") **
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, running through Aberavon, Wales * Aboño or Avono (originated from the same proto-Celtic root), Asturias, Spain {{geodis