Tetbury Avon Little Avon | |
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Etymology | Welsh afon - river |
Native name | Ingleburn (Old English) |
Location | |
Country | England |
Region | West of England |
District | Gloucestershire, Wiltshire |
City | Tetbury, Malmesbury |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Wor Well |
• location | Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England |
• coordinates | 51°38′36″N 2°08′33″W / 51.6432°N 2.1424°W |
• elevation | 375 ft (114 m) |
Mouth | Bristol Avon |
• location | Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England |
• coordinates | 51°34′56″N 2°05′34″W / 51.5821°N 2.09289°W |
• elevation | 230 ft (70 m) |
Length | 7 mi (11 km), south easterly |
Basin size | 28.5 sq mi (74 km2) |
Discharge | |
• average | 24.4 cu ft/s (0.69 m3/s) |
• minimum | 1 cu ft/s (0.028 m3/s) |
• maximum | 141 cu ft/s (4.0 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• right | Cutwell Brook, Wormwell Brook |
River system | Bristol Avon |
The Tetbury Avon, also known as the River Avon (Tetbury Branch), Little Avon or Ingleburn (Anglo-Saxon – English river), is a tributary of the Bristol Avon in south-west England. It rises at Tetbury in Gloucestershire and flows in a generally south-easterly direction, joining the Sherston Avon at Malmesbury in Wiltshire.[1] The water flow has been reduced by public water extraction from its source aquifer in the Cotswold Hills. In the past watermills were used for fulling wool and grinding corn; one working mill survives.