Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Avon, or East Avon

Avon, or East Avon, river, Wilts and Hants; rises 2¾ miles E. of Devizes, Wilts, flows past Salisbury to the English Channel at Christchurch, is 48 miles long, and is navigable to Salisbury.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC
Place names: AVON     |     AVON OR EAST AVON     |     EAST AVON

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