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Avon Water
Avon Water, in the New Forest
Location
Country	England
County	Hampshire
District	New Forest
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	National Park heath immediately south of Burley
• coordinates	50°48′54″N 1°43′19″W / 50.815°N 1.722°W / 50.815; -1.722
• elevation	51m
Mouth
• location	Keyhaven, Hampshire
• coordinates	50°43′26″N 1°33′50″W / 50.724°N 1.564°W / 50.724; -1.564
• elevation	0m
Length	14.5 km (9.0 mi)
Basin features
Progression	Avon Water, sea
River system	Avon Water basin

Avon Water is a small river draining some of the southwest of the New Forest in Hampshire to The Solent. West of the upper part of its archetypally dendritic drainage basin, which has formed due to the forest's heath soil, is the due south, much larger River Avon, rising in Wiltshire.

Context

It is the smallest of three rivers (properly so called) which drain all but the north, west and east edges of the New Forest. These flow south into the Solent: with the Lymington River then Beaulieu River, the furthest east. It rises at many sources close to, south of, Burley, and, quite minutely ribbled in places, curves from south-east to south over its course of 9 miles (14.5 km). It flows into the Solent at Keyhaven, close to the shingle bank that leads to Hurst Castle.

The name thought to have been little-used or communicated outside of certain social circles; yet it dates from at least the 1790s. It is labelled on Thomas Milne's map of Hampshire published by William Faden in 1791. Cary's New Itinerary of 1810 also gives its name but confounds it with the stream ending at Keyhaven Harbour immediately to the west of the lower part (the Dane(s) stream draining Ashley, Hordle, and Milford).

Notably it drains the populous railway village of Sway.

Notes and references

Footnotes

1. Often preceded by "the"

Citations

1. Terry R. Healy, Ying Wang, Judy-Ann Healy (editors), (2002), Muddy coasts of the world: processes, deposits, and function, page 413. Gulf Professional Publishing
2. Colin Rodney Tubbs, (1968), The New Forest: an ecological history, pages 19–20. David & Charles
3. ^ Samuel Lewis, (1855), The book of English rivers: an account of the rivers of England, page 31
4. William White, (1878), History, gazetteer and directory of the county of Hampshire, page 56
5. Old Hampshire Gazetteer - Sway
6. Milne's Hampshire 1791, section 22, Old Hampshire Mapped, retrieved 15 October 2013
7. John Cary, (1810), Cary's New itinerary, R. 195 Lymington to Poole

External links

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v t e Hydrology of Hampshire
Main rivers main tributaries & sub-tributaries	River Loddon Blackwater River Whitewater River Hart Fleet Brook Cove Brook Bow Brook River Itchen River Alre Candover Brook Monks Brook River Test River Anton Blackwater Bourne Rivulet or Swift River Dever River Dun River Wey River Slea or Oxney Stream Oakhanger Stream Kingsley Stream All others Avon Water River Avon Bartley Water Beaulieu River Dark Water River Ems River Hamble Lymington River River Meon River Rother Tanner's Brook River Wallington
Canals and navigations	Andover Canal Basingstoke Canal Itchen Navigation Portsmouth and Arundel Canal Salisbury and Southampton Canal Titchfield Canal
Ordinary watercourses	Latchmore Brook Pillhill Brook West End Brook
Lakes, ponds and wetlands	Chessel Bay Eyeworth Pond Farlington Marshes Fleet Pond Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes Lakeside Country Park Manor Farm duck pond Sowley Pond Testwood Lakes Waggoners Wells
Coast	Chichester Harbour Langstone Harbour Portsmouth Harbour The Solent Southampton Water
Categories: Rivers, Canals

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• Rivers of Hampshire