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[[Image:Salisbury-RiverAvon.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The River Avon in Salisbury]]

The '''River Avon''' is a [[river]] in the [[county]] of [[Hampshire]] in the south of [[England]]. It [[source (river)|rises]] in [[Wiltshire]], east of [[Devizes]], flows south through [[Upavon]], [[Durrington, Wiltshire|Durrington]], [[Amesbury]], [[Salisbury]], [[Fordingbridge]] and [[Ringwood]], andmeeting intoup with the [[Englishriver Channel]]Stour at [[Christchurch, Dorset|Christchurch]], flowing into Christchuch Harbour and into the English channel at Mudeford. The name ''Avon'' is of Celtic origin and simply means "river", as in the modern Welsh ''afon''.

For part of its path it forms the border between [[Dorset]] and Hampshire.