** Clifton Suspension Bridge, a 1864 suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset

* Avon Gorge, Bristol, England

The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge which spans the Avon Gorge and links Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, England.

The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753.

The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753, with a bequest in the will of Bristolian merchant William Vick, who left £ 1, 000 invested with instructions that when the interest had accumulated to £ 10, 000, it should be used for the purpose of building a stone bridge between Clifton Down ( which was in Gloucestershire, outside the City of Bristol, until the 1830s ) and Leigh Woods in Somerset.

Avon Gorge and Clifton Suspension Bridge, with Observatory, Bristol | Giants Cave

Downstream of central Bristol the river passes through the deep Avon Gorge, spanned by Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge, the river is tidal and is navigable by sea going vessels at high tide but drying to a steep sided muddy channel at low tide.

The Avon Gorge has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest because it supports some rare fauna and flora, including species unique to the gorge.

It originates near Cumbernauld, flows through Avonbridge, through the Avon Gorge, through Muiravonside Country Park, Falkirk, past the west of Linlithgow and enters the Firth of Forth near Grangemouth.

The zoo also supports work to protect the rare silky wave moth in Avon Gorge.

Cadzow Castle, seen across the Avon Water | Avon Gorge from the Duke's Bridge

The Duke's Bridge, built high across the Avon Gorge, offers the most dramatic view of the ruins above the wooded gorge.

The area of East Kilbride is home to a river valley which, apart from the Avon Gorge, is unique in the way it was formed.

The word arises from the climb " Gronk " in Avon Gorge which is notorious for this.

A paper in " The Last of the Britons " conference in 2007 suggests that the West Wansdyke continues from Maes Knoll to the hill forts above the Avon Gorge and controls the crossings of the river at Saltford and Bristol as well as at Bath

* The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Avon Gorge in Bristol

Various sub-districts of Clifton exist, including Whiteladies Road, an important shopping district to the east, and Clifton Village, a smaller shopping area near the Avon Gorge to the west.

Although the suburb has no formal boundaries, the name Clifton is generally applied to the high ground stretching from Whiteladies Road in the east to the rim of the Avon Gorge in the west, and from Clifton Down and Durdham Down in the north to Cornwallis Crescent in the south.

One famous terrace is the majestic Royal York Crescent, visible from the Avon Gorge below and looking across the Bristol docks.

The southern entrance to the Avon Gorge, which connects those docks to the sea, lies at the western end of Hotwells.

From the southwest corner of Clifton Down, in an area known as the Sea Wall, there are panoramic views of the Avon Gorge and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

One portal is in Clifton near Clifton Down railway station ; the other in the Avon Gorge far below Clifton Down.

In 2008, there were concerns by some gay men at the removal of vegetation as part of the Avon Gorge Management Plan, on the grounds that this was discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

Clifton Down is the part of the Downs southwest of Stoke Road, between Sneyd Park and Clifton and extending to the edge of the Avon Gorge.

In the episode " Death-Watch ", the two meet on a neutral planet, and after discussing Servalan's latest scheme, embrace and kiss passionately ( Servalan also remarks that she viewed Avon not as an enemy, but as a future ally ).

A First Somerset and Avon bus picks up passengers at the Market cross on service 126 from Weston-super-Mare to Wells, the principal bus service through Cheddar

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

Sometimes fierce waves springing up unexpectedly have led to dramatic rescues ; in one instance, a Cleveland resident trying to measure the dock near his house became trapped but was rescued by a fire department diver from Avon Lake, Ohio:

A journey along the Avon to reach Stonehenge was part of a ritual passage from life to death, to celebrate past ancestors and the recently deceased.

* In 2010, rail and coach commuter service was proposed between Minturn and Dotsero, in 2012 from Leadville to Vail and Dotsero with intermediate stations at Minturn, Avon, Eagle and Gypsum.

* Bradford Town F. C., non-league football team from Bradford on Avon

The Colgate Series, renamed the Toyota Series in 1981, included tournaments from the across the world, whereas the Avon sponsored events took place solely in the U. S. The two circuits merged beginning with the 1983 season, when Virginia Slims returned to take full sponsorship rights of the WTA Tour.

*" Avon 1 ," a song by Female from A Bugged Out Mix

This area of Stratford, which runs from the foot of Bridge Street to Holy Trinity Church ( and leads directly off Sheep Street and Scholars Lane ) runs alongside the River Avon and offers access to the Waterside Theatre and all areas of the RST.

The Bancroft Gardens run from Waterside to the River Avon and include a canal basin at the southern end of the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.

The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society aims to re-open the closed railway line from Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne, with a later extension to Broadway, Worcestershire.

The Anglo-Saxons held the present counties of Kent, Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and around the Humber ; it is clear that the native British controlled everything west of a line drawn from the mouth of the Wiltshire Avon at Christchurch north to the river Trent, then along the Trent to where it joined the Humber, then north along the river Derwent and east to the North Sea, and also controlled a salient to the north and west of London, and south of Verulamium, that stretched west to join their main territory.

When Blake is separated from his crew, Avon takes over as leader.

Avon is an electronics and computer expert who once attempted to steal 500 million credits from the Federation banking system.

Servalan lures Avon into a trap using a faked message from Blake.

The Athens Trail Network is a multi-use trail network branching out from Sells ' City Park at the end of Avon Place.

Of the thirteen Eastons in England, the most important town of that name is situated about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) from the head of the Lower Avon.

The seat of Talbot County, being just one mile ( 1. 6 km ) from the headwaters of Tred Avon River, changed its name from Talbot Court House to Easton in 1788 as a reference to the English town.

The Chronicle of Tewkesbury records that the first Christian worship was brought to the area by Theoc, a missionary from Northumbria, who built his cell in the mid-7th century near a gravel spit where the Severn and Avon rivers join together.

The Swan begins as the Avon River, rising near Yealering in the Darling Range, approximately 175 kilometres from its mouth at Fremantle.

Many early slash stories were based on a pairing of two close friends, a " hero dyad " or " One True Pairing " such as Kirk / Spock or Starsky / Hutch ; conversely, a classic pairing between foils was that of Blake / Avon from Blake's 7.

Cycling paths run from Strathclyde Park to Chatelherault Country Park following the banks of the Clyde and Avon.

The racial makeup of Glen Avon was 10, 272 ( 50. 9 %) White, 805 ( 4. 0 %) African American, 216 ( 1. 1 %) Native American, 462 ( 2. 3 %) Asian, 34 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 7, 567 ( 37. 5 %) from other races, and 843 ( 4. 2 %) from two or more races.