The River Avon (and its tributaries) has a catchment that covers a land area of over 1700 km2. A catchment is an area that is drained by a river.
The River Avon is home to 184 plant species.
The River Avon is home to 27 fish species.
The River Avon is 85 miles long from Pewsey (near where it starts) to Christchurch (where it meets the sea).
The importance of the River Avon and its tributaries has been recognised for several internationally rare or threatened species, such as sea and brook lamprey, bullhead, Atlantic salmon and Desmoulins' whorl snail.
And finally a 13th century poet spoke of the River Avon and its tributaries as ‘live-giving Streams’ and ‘lighter than a spark, brighter than crystal, purer than gold, sweeter than ambrosia, is this liquid’.
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