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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.
Blake disappears and Kerr Avon then leads the group.
The group is then shot by Federation guards, who surround Avon in the final scene.
Graham's concept was that a group of young rebels would rescue Avon, who had been kept cryogenically frozen by Servalan, and then roam the galaxy in a new ship named Liberator.
In 1219 Richard Poore, the then Bishop of Sarum, decided to establish a new town and cathedral on an estate in his possession ( confusingly known as Veteres Sarisberias — Old Salisburys ) in the valley, on the banks of the River Avon.
The Avon rises near Yealering, 100 km southeast of Perth: it meanders north-northwest to Toodyay about 90 km northeast of Perth, then turns southwest in Walyunga National Park-at the confluence of the Wooroloo Brook, it becomes the Swan River.
The Farmington River runs through the town from the northwest from Burlington, enters Unionville, then takes a sharp near Farmington Center and flows north towards Avon.
It then overlaps I-90 for, until Garrison, where it heads east through Avon and Elliston.
After the two rivers merge, the Avon then turns south east away from the Cotswolds and then quickly south into the clay Dauntsey Vale, where it is joined by the River Marden, until it reaches the biggest town so far, Chippenham.
The wide vale is now known as the Avon Vale, and the river flows on via Lacock to Melksham, then turns north-west through Bradford on Avon, where the centre of the town grew up around the ford across the river Avon, hence the origin of the town's name (" Broad-Ford ").
It then flows past Claverton Pumping Station, which pumped water from the River Avon into the canal, using power from the flow of the river.
The river is then joined by the Kennet and Avon Canal which connects with the Avon just below the weir at Bath Locks.
The river then continues east down Glen Avon for another 10 miles before turning north towards the village of Tomintoul and Strath Avon.
Also included in the standard specification was the famous " seven dial dash ", Avon Safety Wheels and a distinctive paint finish in a then brand new Vauxhall " Extra Dark Wine " ( only available otherwise on the brand new for 1976 VX 2300 GLS model ) which was complemented with bright red striping and highlights.
Since then, the Bath & Hammondsport has become a subsidiary of the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville which currently operates the line, though not over any of its original route.
The eastern-boundary then runs ( southward ) up Glen Avon, and over Am Bealach Dearg to slightly east of Braemar.
The A71 then becomes a narrow and winding road across moorland, as the road ascends to the head of the Avon valley.

Avon and flows
It sits at the confluence of five rivers: the Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne are tributary to the Avon, which flows to the south coast and into the sea at Christchurch, Dorset.
The Avon flows north, passing through the towns of Brookton, Beverley, York, Northam and Toodyay.
It was named for the Avon River which flows through it.
Beyond its junction with the Kennet and Avon Canal, the Avon flows through Keynsham towards Bristol.
In its heyday, between 1709 and 1859 Swineford had an active brass and copper industry around the Swineford Lock which were served by the river which also provided water power for the cloth industry, as did the River Boyd, a tributary which flows into the Avon near Bitton.
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 Avon flows between the village of Glassford, and Stonehouse to the south, before merging with the smaller Cander Water just south of Larkhall.
The Avon Water flows north beneath the M74 motorway, merging into the Clyde between Hamilton and Motherwell, beside Junction 6 of the M74.
A quote from ' Wiki Christchurch NZ ': " The river that flows through the centre of the city ( its banks now largely forming an urban park ) was named Avon at the request of the pioneering Deans brothers to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was their grandfathers ' farm and flows into the Clyde ".
The Avon River rises northeast of Stratford and flows southwest, entering the North Thames River near St. Marys.
Both the flows of the Avon and the West Branch have been impeded by hydropower developments in the early twentieth century.
Conesus Creek flowing from Conesus Lake flows into the Genesee west of Avon village.
Passing the Georgian Royal Pump Rooms in the centre of Leamington Spa, the River Leam flows a further two miles until it joins the River Avon at the border between Warwick and Leamington.
The River Avon flows through the grounds, with a weir downstream, so a small lake is formed.
At Wimborne Minster it is joined by the River Allen, and at its estuary at Christchurch it is joined by the River Avon before it flows through the harbour into the English Channel.

Avon and through
Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, the library, roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service.
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
At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).
Queen Elizabeth Gardens showing part of the River Avon diverted through the gardens.
Between 1930 and 1935 the through station was expanded under the direction of architect P E Culverhouse, both eastwards over the old cattle market, and southwards on a new wider bridge across Cattle Market Road and the New Cut of the River Avon.
The prototype of this was used to span Mother Siller's Channel which cuts through the nearby Stanpit Marshes, an area of marshland at the confluence of the River Avon ( Hampshire ) and the River Stour, Dorset.
It was dissected by the Eastern Railway when it was constructed in the 1890s and rail traffic passed through until 1966, when the line was closed due to the opening of the Avon Valley route.
The Swan-Avon River and the Eastern Railway run through the park and the Avon Descent passes through a set of rapids along this section.
The River Kennet and the Kennet and Avon Canal flow through the centre of the town, while the River Lambourn partly forms its northern boundary and the River Enborne forms its southern boundary ( and also the county boundary with Hampshire ).
The Kennet and Avon Canal runs through the middle of Newbury
The Avon School District serves public school students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
The county was named after the River Avon, which runs through the area.
Avon Lake High School provides grades nine through twelve.
* In the 1960s, the third route used easier grades through the Avon Valley
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.
The Avon rises just north of the village of Acton Turville in South Gloucestershire, dividing into two before merging again and flowing through Wiltshire.

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