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The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal links to the Avon through a lock in the park in front of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. [5] The River Avon can be used by boats with a maximum length of 70 ft (21 m), beam of 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m), height of 10 ft (3.0 m) and draught of 4 ft (1.2 m) from Tewkesbury to Evesham.
Hampton Ferry (River Avon) Coordinates: 52.091220°N 1.957970°W. Hampton Ferry. The Hampton Ferry is a pedestrian cable ferry linking Evesham and the village of Hampton across the River Avon in the English county of Worcestershire. The route dates back to the 13th century, when it was established by the monks of Evesham Abbey as a short-cut to ...
The Avon, a tributary of the River Severn, is navigable but mainly used by leisure traffic and there is a marina providing moorings. The River Avon at Evesham has always been susceptible to heavy flooding which is well documented from the 13th century. In May 1924 floods at Evesham ranked 5th in the annual flood list 1848 to 1935. [31]
Colin Park / The River Avon and Workman Bridge, Evesham /. CC BY-SA 2.0. InfoField. Colin Park / The River Avon and Workman Bridge, Evesham. Camera location. 52° 05′ 25″ N, 1° 56′ 40″ W. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap. 52.090240; -1.944400. Object location.
List of crossings of the River Avon, Warwickshire. This is a list of crossings of the River Avon in England (including bridges, tunnels, ferries and fords), in order from its source in Northamptonshire, through or adjoining the counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire, to its confluence with the River ...
Canal & River Trust & Avon Navigation Trust. The Avon Ring is a canal ring which is located to the south west of Birmingham in England, and connects the major towns of Stratford-upon-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury, Worcester and the southern outskirts of Birmingham. It consists of stretches of four waterways, and is heavily locked, with a total of ...
The line crosses the River Avon into Evesham. Opposite Evesham's Cotswold Line station is the former Midland Railway station, once on the Ashchurch & Barnt Green line. The line becomes single track again about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Evesham and then crosses the River Avon twice more and follows it towards Pershore.
The Isbourne catchment covers an area of 95 square kilometres (37 sq mi) and lies between the Badsey Brook to the east, the Merry Brook and Carrant Brook to the west with the Cotswolds to the south. It has an average annual rainfall of 704 millimetres (27.7 in), which is somewhat drier than the average for England at 828 millimetres (32.6 in).