Talk:River Avon, Warwickshire
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[edit] Gloucestershire
I think this page should be moved, probably to River Avon, Warwickshire. This river flows through Gloucs for about 1km, and forms the border of Gloucs for a little longer, near Tewkesbury. See Talk:River Avon. --rbrwr
- Nobody objected, so I moved it. --rbrwr
Actually thats not quite correct, the source of the river Avon is in Northamptonshire. And it runs for roughly 5/6 miles through the county G-Man 22:43, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- OK, but it still serves as a useful disambiguator, and what I was proposing was a move from River Avon, Gloucestershire, so Gloucs v Warwicks was the key comparison. Actually, if I had to do it all over again I might use River Avon (Warwickshire) and River Avon (Bristol) - I think the brackets give the impression of being a disambiguating device, whereas the comma rather implies that the river is in that particular place - which is true of neither the Warwicks Avon nor the Bristol Avon. I don't particularly feel they should be moved, though. --rbrwr
[edit] Avon, Warwickshire
Are you sure this should be moved to "Avon, Warwickshire" I've never heard it described as such, and as I've already pointed out it doesn't just flow through Warwickshire G-Man 20:38, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
According to the Ordnance Survey map it is known as the 'River Avon' not the 'Avon' so I moved it back, besides all the links go here G-Man 12:58, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Other Avons
From Wolf:--172.179.155.46 16:26, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC) I think we have to understand that Avon comes from the Welsh word Afon, wich simply means River. And, we have to see, that there are at least a minimum of 4 River Avons (or River Rivers) in Great Britain.
1) Avon, a river in central England, rising in Northamptonshire and flowing southwest through Stratford-on-Avon to the River Severn at Tewkesbury.
2) Avon, a river rising on Dartmoor and flowing into the sea at Bigbury on Sea.
3) Avon, a river rising in Gloucestershire and flowing south and west through Bristol to the Severn estuary at Avonmouth
4) Avon, a river rising in Wiltshire and flowing south to the English Channel.
- See River Avon, to which I've now added a link. Andy Mabbett 16:45, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Severn
Why is there an ugly big box about the Severn on this page? It's confusing. I know the Avon is a tributary, but that's not enough justification afaic! --kingboyk 19:30, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I've been bold and replaced it with a See Also link. Much better imho. --kingboyk 09:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Avon I have edited the page becasue I found a few incorrect facts on about the navigation, as well as adding sources. The description Warwickshire Avon is useful because it distinguishes it from the Bristol Avon and the Hampshire (or Wiltshire) Avon.
