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Imagine standing quietly on the banks of the River Avon at dusk. The air is cool ... and castoreum oil drove them to extinction in Britain. The rivers grew quieter, their once-busy architects ...

As a child, Robert Macfarlane would spend long stretches of his summer holidays floating, face down, in the River Avon in Scotland. ‘It ran along the edge of my grandparents’ field in the ...

The River Avon runs through Bristol, England, where there's a dedicated community of open water swimmers who swim in the river. Some do it all year long. Sewer overflows run into the river ...

A community of ‘at least’ 50 beavers has been discovered in the River Avon near Bristol, surprising researchers, Natural England said last week. The announcement was made in a report from the ...

When I learnt that Britain’s oldest open-air lido had stood ... Beyond, down an alleyway off a residential street and next to the River Avon, lie the pools. At first sight and at the tail ...