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Attractive bridges over the Avon are part of Bath. This one is notable for its ironwork.

Few canal sights in Britain match the splendour of the Caen Hill flight of 29 locks which raises the Kennet and Avon canal 230 feet over a two mile stretch.

This is how the River Avon looked alongside Churchill Gardens, just south of the city centre in 1923.The bridge in the distance is the old Harnham Bridge—the photograph was taken before the building

It is situated on the Avon in an extensive and complex area of water meadows and carriers which control the flow of the river downstream.The parish church is extremely old and surprisingly large

The bridge over the River Avon at Ibsley, with its white water weir, wildfowl and waterside scenery, is a good place to halt if you are following that lovely river up from the sea.

The bridge over the Avon was built in 1893.

The church, partly medieval with some rebuilding over the centuries, dominates what was a busy three days a week market square surrounded by Georgian frontages, and the banks of the river Avon.

In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.

Yet another of Worcestershire's imposing old mills stands on the banks of the River Avon near to Fladbury.

This view shows Bridge Street on the north bank of the Kennet and Avon canal.

Avon Castle, on the opposite bank of the river from Ringwood, is an area that has become increasingly built-up and urbanised since this photograph of a country gentleman's home was taken in the last full

In Saxon times this old town was known as Twyneham, meaning 'the town between the streams' - in this case the Avon and the Stour, whose waters empty into Christchurch Harbour.

The impressive and imposing ruins of Malmesbury Abbey look down on the river Avon 60 feet below.

Christchurch stands on two rivers, the Stour and the Avon, and gets its old name of Twyneham from the Anglo Saxon, meaning 'the town between the rivers'.

The mill is actially on the Bathampton or south bank of the Avon, beyond the toll bridge. In this view it has been converted into the Weir Tea Garden Hotel, and the meadow turned into a tea lawn.

Aveton Gifford (pronounced Auton, meaning the settlement on the Avon) stands at the head of the estuary.

Sitting on a steep slope of the Avon Valley between Stroud and Nailsworth, Woodchester is home to one of the best Roman mosaic pavements in the country.

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon.

Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon..

This is how the River Avon looked just north of the city centre in 1923, forty years before the water meadows on the left were turned into the huge Central Car Park.

Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon.

The ancient town of Christchurch stands on the two rivers Stour and Avon, getting its old name Twyneham from the Anglo-Saxon, meaning 'the town between two rivers'.

For the mid 13th century, it represented a major feat of civil engineering that involved diverting the course of the River Frome from its ancient junction with the Avon.