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Avon covers an area previously divided between the County Boroughs of Bristol and Bath and the counties of Somerset and Gloucestershire. Most of its boundaries are natural—the River Severn (west), the Mendips (south) and the Cotswold escarpment (east). The two urban centres are the commercial, industrial, cathedral and university city of Bristol and the city of Bath which, although smaller, extends an influence well into Wiltshire.
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Bax, A., Fairfield, S. (1978). Avon. In: The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978–79. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81511-1_1
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