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There are several rivers named "Avon" around the world:

England

• River Avon, Devon, Bigbury on Sea[?] near Salcombe[?]
• River Avon, Warwickshire through Stratford-upon-Avon
• River Avon, Hampshire through Salisbury and Christchurch
• River Avon, Bristol through Bath and Bristol

Scotland

• River Avon, Falkirk
• River Avon, Speyside
• Avon Water, tributary of the River Clyde

Canada

• Avon River, Ontario
• Avon River, Nova Scotia

New Zealand

• Avon River, New Zealand

Australia

• Avon River, Australia

The name "Avon" comes from the Welsh word afon meaning "river". (It appears that later arrivals to Britain would ask the indigenous people what the local river was called, and were told, in the local language, that it was a river). See Abnoba for the root of the name.

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