Avoncliff
Avoncliff is a small village in west Wiltshire, England, in the north of Westwood parish about 1.5 miles southwest of Bradford-on-Avon. It is the point at which the Kennet and Avon canal crosses the river and railway line via the Avoncliff Aqueduct, which was built by John Rennie and chief engineer John Thomas, between 1797 and 1801.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Avoncliff, Wiltshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Avoncliff railway station and Avoncliff Aqueduct.
Avoncliff railway station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Mytton, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avoncliff railway station serves the small village of Avoncliff, in Wiltshire, England, together with the nearby villages of Westwood and Winsley, and Turleigh hamlet.
Avoncliff Aqueduct
Bridge
Photo: Akke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Avoncliff Aqueduct carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the River Avon and the Bath to Westbury railway, at Avoncliff in Wiltshire, England, about 1+1⁄2 miles west of Bradford-on-Avon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Turleigh and Freshford.
Turleigh
Hamlet
Turleigh is a hamlet in west Wiltshire, England. It lies immediately south of the village of Winsley, overlooking the Avon valley, about 1.2 miles west of Bradford on Avon.
Freshford
Village
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Freshford is a village and civil parish in the Avon valley 6 miles south-east of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 551.
Bradford on Avon
Photo: Nessino, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bradford on Avon is a small country town in England between Bath and Trowbridge. The handsome buildings which climb up the hills from the 'broad ford' across the river are mostly Georgian, the legacy of a few hundred years of prosperity as a centre of a textile industry making fine woollen cloth from Cotswold sheep.
Avoncliff
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Westwood, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.33819° or 51° 20′ 18″ northLongitude
-2.2805° or 2° 16′ 50″ westElevation
210 feet (64 metres)Open location code
9C3V8PQ9+7ROpenStreetMap ID
node 26352939OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Avoncliff”. Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.