lundi 3 janvier 2005

More Scenes from Wiltshire The Bristol Avon Visitors to Wiltshire seeking the courses of the Avon on their maps ancient and modern may be confused at seeing not one river but two... to the north and to the south of the county and, running in different directions! Both rivers are called Avon... however, they are known more locally as the Bristol Avon and the Salisbury Avon. The former rises on the Badminton Estate and after meandering east, south, west, north and west again reaches the tidal waters of the Severn Estuary west of Bristol at Avonmouth. The other is formed from several waters which join at Upavon and become the Avon that runs south to Salisbury then through Hampshire and eventually to the English Channel at Christchurch, or Twynham, "a town between two waters" as it was called in Saxon times. Update 15 June 2007 : This article has been moved and can now be read on my new expanded web site 20/20 Visions 9:34:39 PM    comment []