The millstream is fine if you are a swan.
Place Mill was mentioned in the Doomsday Book.
Walk over the River Avon twice.
There are at least four River Avons in England. This one has come from Wiltshire, through Salisbury, divided here, but reunited and united with the River Stour at Christchurch Harbour. There are River Avons all over the world perhaps? One in Christchurch New Zealand, one in Northam, Western Australia, famous for uniquely having white swans as the black swan is native to Western Australia.
Let us know if you have a River Avon or River Stour.
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
oh yes, the same one as you 🤣. I shan’t suggest going to the Quomps for a while…
LikeLiked by 1 person
No, even the paths on the Quomps have piles of soggy reeds, so far from the river I must have missed good photo opportunities.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Believe it or not I’m only a few hundred yards from the river, but I don’t even try to go down at this time of year. Everywhere is waterlogged from about October. But they are water meadows, after all.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I love those water meadows – in summer.
LikeLiked by 1 person
River Avon is a tautology – Avon (or Afon) in Welsh, means river!
The River River is good and high!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Which explains why there are so many Avons around!
LikeLike
That flooding is looking pretty dicey! I hope it doesn’t get any worse.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It could return a few millennia to the swampy area it originally was!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yikes! That’s a scary thought.
LikeLiked by 1 person
There is an Avon River in Ontario, by the fittingly named city of Stratford, which (also fittingly) hosts the Stratford Festival, famous for productions of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as others. I hasten to add I’ve never been there, living several thousand kilometers away.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hello Audrey, I’m not surprised to hear Ontario has a Stratford and an Avon. I suppose a city inheriting that name feels honour bound to do Shakespeare.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I don’t have an Avon but as Afon is the Welsh word for river I have a lot of those! It is pronounced with a short ‘a’ as in hat.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Correct pronunciation before the name was borrowed for a certain makeup company!
LikeLiked by 1 person
No Avon or Stour in Norfolk. Local rivers are the Yare, Bure, Waveney, Wensum, and The Great Ouse. Your flooding is worse than ours, that’s for sure. But it is still raining here, albeit light showers today.
Best wishes, Pete.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Still raining here!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hi Janet, we may well have had rivers with these names historically. Many names have been changed in South Africa. Britain had many colonies which is why you find these English names everywhere that was part of the old empire.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes Robbie it’s funny when you read bloggers on another continent mention a name of your local suburb or river.
LikeLike
😄🌞
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hmm … looks like a good day to stay indoors with a cuppa and a good book. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
We have had a lot of days like that!
LikeLike
A river runs through Avon, Colorado, but they call it Eagle River.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Much better name.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wow, it looks like very high rivers.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes Debby they are certainly flowing fast.
LikeLiked by 1 person