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River Avon, Warwickshire

Also known as Warwickshire Avon

The River Avon is a river in the English Midlands that rises in Northamptonshire and flows south-west for about 135 kilometres through Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and Evesham to join the Severn at Tewkesbury. Its fertile valley lay in the heartland of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and of its client people the Hwicce, and Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford, stands on its banks.

River Avon, Warwickshire
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). River Avon, Warwickshire. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/river-avon-warwickshire
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