The town has numerous coffee shops and cafes, a cellar door for a local winery, Design Gallery, model railway shop, a pub, parks and playgrounds for car travelers to break their journey. In 1863 Reverend Friedrich Hagenauer established Ramahyuck Mission on the banks of the Avon River near Lake Wellington to house the Ganai survivors from west and central Gippsland. The name combines « Ramah », the home of Samuel in the First Book of Kings, with « yuck », an Aboriginal term reputedly meaning « our place ».

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The main Northam Pool on the Avon River (start point for the Avon Descent) is the only permanent stretch of natural inland water along the entire Great Eastern Highway between Perth and Adelaide. The Avon Descent passes through some of Western Australia’s most picturesque country. You will travel through the farming regions of historic Northam and Toodyay, forested national parks, steep gorges, the Swan Valley vineyard region and, eventually, into the tidal waters of the upper Swan River. The Avon Descent offers participants conditions ranging from long stretches of flat water that can test the endurance of the fittest athlete through to rapids, sure to test the skills of all who attempt to navigate their unknown contours. The wide stretches of the Avon River provided a suitable stretch of water for rowing to become a major sport and past time for Christchurch residents.

The Avon river runs through which NZ city?

• Stratford is a town on the Avon River in Victoria, Australia, 232 kilometres (144 mi) east of Melbourne on the Princes Highway in Shire of Wellington.
• In 1849, the Deans brothers, early settler farmers, also named it the Avon River after the Avon River in their home town of Ayrshire, Scotland.
• European settlement did not take place without resistance, and in return, massacres were inflicted by Angus McMillan and others on Gunai people, especially between the years of 1840 and 1850.
• In 1863 Reverend Friedrich Hagenauer established Ramahyuck Mission on the banks of the Avon River near Lake Wellington to house the Ganai survivors from west and central Gippsland.
• It is probable that Stirling chose the name, although the choice may have been made prior to the Governor’s visit as it was used by James Henty who carried out his own examination of the region in October 1830.

The name Avon has no meaning in Hebrew.The name Avon is an English variant of Afon, which means « river » in Welsh. William Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon (« Stratford upon the river »), bears this name. The Avon River town called Rugby gives its name to the sport.

D. Ree’s former boatsheds (known as Canterbury Boatsheds) are on the right, next to Mr Steel’s house. Then there are the various buildings of Ward’s Brewery which includes the additional reading old Malthouse on the left. There has only ever been one first and only outright winning paddle craft in the 50-event history of the Avon Descent. Bevan and Neville paddled in the Open Men’s double kayak division in a WK2 in extremely low water conditions with high attrition rates of both paddle craft and power craft. The watercourse is first termed the Avon at the Waleellemining Brook’s confluence with Cuneenying Brook, eight kilometres south west of Yealering. The hydrological source of the Avon River is the Waleellemining Brook near the East Yornaning Nature Reserve, 29 kilometres north-east of Narrogin and 29 kilometres south-west of Yealering.

In the years since, more than 35,000 people have participated in the Avon Descent, from novices and families, to World Champions and Olympic competitors. The Avon River drains the Great Southern and Upper Great Southern regions, actually starting as a river near Wickepin. The Avon River is 295km in length and the basin covers an area of 120,000 square km, extending from Northam in the west to Southern Cross in the east, north to Dalwallinu and south to Pingrup. From its confluence with Wooroloo Brook in Walyunga National Park the Avon becomes the Swan River. Approximately 60% of the Swan River’s flow is from the Avon River.