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Survey of English Place-Names

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Avening Green

Other OS name in the Parish of Tortworth

Historical Forms

  • Avening, Avon's-Green 1779 Rudder

Etymology

, 1830 M , Avening , Avon 's -Green 1779 Rudder , probably of the same origin as Avening (i, 86supra ) ; it is by the Little Avon R . ( i , 3 supra ) , v. - ingas , grēne 2 .