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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Gloucestershire River Avon is in Severn Estuary.
The Gloucestershire River Avon rises near Acton Turville, Gloucestershire [Map] after which it flows past Luckington, Wiltshire [Map], Sherston, Wiltshire [Map], Easton Grey, Wiltshire [Map], Malmesbury, Wiltshire [Map], Great Somerford, Wiltshire [Map], Christian Malford, Wiltshire [Map], Chippenham, Wiltshire [Map], Melksham, Wiltshire [Map], Bradford on Avon [Map], under the Dundas Aquaduct, Wiltshire [Map], through Bath, Somerset [Map], past Keynsham, Gloucestershire [Map], through Bristol [Map] under the Clifton Suspension Bridge [Map] to Avonmouth, Gloucestershire [Map] where it joins the Severn Estuary.
1801. The Dundas Aquaduct, Wiltshire [Map] carries the Kennet and Avon canal over the Gloucestershire River Avon. It was designed by John Rennie and chief engineer John Thomas between 1797 and 1801, and completed in 1805.
In 1864 the Clifton Suspension Bridge [Map] over the Gloucestershire River Avon opened.
Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire River Avon, River Biss 
The River Biss rises near Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire [Map] as the Biss Brook after which it flows past Westbury, Wiltshire [Map] to Yarnbrook, Wiltshire [Map] where it becomes the River Biss. Thereafter it continues north through Trowbridge, Wiltshire [Map] after which it joins the Gloucestershire River Avon.
Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire River Avon, River Chew 
The River Chew rises near Chewton Mendip, Somerset [Map] then flows north past Litton, Somerset [Map], Coley, Somerset [Map], North Widcombe, Somerset [Map] where it joins the Chew Valley Lake [Map], Chew Magna, Somerset [Map], Pensford, Somerset [Map], Compton Dando, Somerset [Map] joining the Gloucestershire River Avon at Keynsham, Gloucestershire [Map].
Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire River Avon, River Frome 
The River Frome, Gloucestershire rises in Dodington Park, Gloucestershire [Map] after which it flows past Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire [Map], Yate, Gloucestershire [Map], Iron Acton, Gloucestershire [Map], Frampton Cotterel, Gloucestershire [Map], Winterbourne Down, Goucestershire [Map], Frenchay, Bristol [Map] and Eastville, Bristol [Map] after which it is covered for a long stretch emerging into Bristol Floating Harbour [Map] before joining the Gloucestershire River Avon.
Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire River Avon, River Frome 
The River Frome, Somerset rises 3km south-west of Witham Friary, Somerset [Map] after which it flows past Tytherinton, Somerset [Map] then through Frome, Somerset [Map], past Farleigh Hungerford Castle [Map] before joining the Gloucestershire River Avon at Freshford, Somerset [Map].
