However, it has chosen to take a slightly longer route through Wiltshire and takes a 75 mile course to the sea at Avonmouth. This extended journey makes the Bristol Avon the 19th longest river in the UK.
You will know many more! The Welsh word for river is Afon, also prounounced in the same way as avon, meaning River Avon in Welsh is called Afon Afan, another tautology, also meaning River River. Both the longest English and the longest British River Avon, this river travels for eighty five miles through the English counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire, from it's source at Naseby in Northamptonshire until it merges with the River Severn at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire.
This River Avon is also known as the Warwickshire Avon - as it travels through more of that county than any other - or Shakespeare's Avon - as it travels through William Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford - upon - Avon. It is here at Stratford that the river connects with the Stratford and Avon Canal. English River Avon number three is a sixty mile long river which rises in Pewsey, Wiltshire and travels through the counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset on England's south coast before draining into the English Channel at Mudeford in Dorset.
English River Avon number four is the baby of the family, situated soley in the county of Devon and is only seven miles long. The river rises on the moorlands of Dartmoor National Park and flows southwards towards the south Devon coastal town of Bigbury - on - Sea, where the tiny river drains into the English Channel. The fund is administered via a small grants scheme on behalf of the partnership- to find out more information about the fund or to find out when the next phase of the Catchment Partnership Fund will be please view our Catchment Partnership Fund page.
There is a strong farming heritage, particularly in the north of the catchment, and the catchment landscape is important for wildlife, angling, navigation and recreation. The Bristol Avon and its tributaries flow through the towns of Malmesbury, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Frome and Radstock and in its lower reaches, through Bath and Bristol.
The catchment is home to more than one million people. The water environment includes all rivers, streams and wetlands that drain within the catchment landscape. It also includes all the different types of landscape that we build on, cultivate and modify; all of these human interventions have an impact on the water cycle and can, for example, lead to an increased risk of pollution leaching in to our watercourses and ground water aquifers.
The government aims to ensure all waterbodies in England meet good ecological status by These are just some of the water-based challenges within the Bristol Avon catchment that can be addressed more effectively by working together:. Although this is typical of other catchments in the UK, it demonstrates the scale of the challenge to meet the Water Framework Directive targets. Due to factors including physical modification, phosphate levels, sediment load and low fish populations.
Some landowners are losing valuable topsoil, nutrients and pesticides. Due to erosion, run-off or leaching; sometimes linked to poor soil structure and compaction. Heavy rainfall running off rural and urban areas causes surface water and river flooding in specific locations.
BACP is one of over catchment partnerships across England to support the CaBA which embeds collaborative working at a river catchment scale to deliver cross-cutting improvements to our water environments. The river is accompanied by the thirty four mile long, Avon Valley Path , between Salisbury and Christchurch. The river then goes on to merge with the River Stour at Christchurch, where they both flow into Christchurch Harbour at Mudeford in Dorset, pictured above, situated on the English Channel.
The estuary of these two rivers is both an important site of special scientific interest SSSI and part of a local nature reserve. The river is served by several old bridges, including a three arch, stone bridge in the village of Ibsley in Hampshire and a six arch, masonry bridge situated at Fordingbridge also in Hampshire.
This River Avon is unique for having more species of fish than any other British river. Image courtesy of Neil Geering, wikimedia commons. The River Avon in Hampshire, also known as Avon Water to distinguish it from the sixty mile long, River Avon described above which also flows through the county, is a nine mile long stretch of water which rises near Holmsley in the New Forest before flowing in a south easterly direction towards it's mouth on the Solent , situated not far from the shingle bank at Keyhaven which leads to the sixteenth century, Hurst Castle.
Avon Water is the shortest of the three main rivers, along with the fourteen mile long, River Lymington , and the twelve mile long, Beaulieu Water , which drain the two hundred and nineteen square mile area of the New Forest. The river rises near Ryder's Hill, famous for it's standing stones and triangulation survey station, on the boggy moorlands of the three hundred and sixty eight square mile, Dartmoor National Park, in the county of Devon and flows in a southerly direction towards the south Devon coastal town of Bigbury - on - Sea, pictured above, where it drains out into the English Channel.
The river is renowned for it's stocks of salmon and trout. The longest River Avon in Scotland is the forty mile long river that rises on the foothills of Ben MacDui at Cragganmui and travels for ten miles before entering the remote and isolated Loch Avon , situated three thousand, seven hundred feet up on the Cairngorm Plateau of the Cairngorms National Park.
The river then travels on through the Forest of Glenavon and the Highland villages of Tomintoul , which sits at an altitude of three hundred and forty five meters, and Strathavon, before merging with the River Spey at Ballindalloch in Banffshire. This River Avon is the longest tributary of Scotland's River Spey and is considered to be Scotland's finest salmon river. Image courtesy of Alistair McMillan, wikimedia commons.
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