Avening
Sign in to saveAvening () is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about north of Tetbury. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,094, decreasing to 1,031 at the 2011 census. Nearby is Gatcombe Park, the home of the Princess Royal.
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.shire_county
- Gloucestershire
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.shire_district
- Cotswold
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Cotswolds
- UK place.population
- 1,031
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.static_image_name
- Avening1.jpg
- UK place.postcode_area
- GL
- UK place.postcode_district
- GL8
- UK place.post_town
- Tetbury
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +1031
- Image
- Avening1.jpg
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Avening () is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about north of Tetbury. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,094, decreasing to 1,031 at the 2011 census. Nearby is Gatcombe Park, the home of the Princess Royal.
==Etymology== The name Avening is first attested in an early 11th-century manuscript of a charter of 896, in the dative case, in the Old English phrase ("to Avening"). In the nominative case, this word would have been . Throughout the 20th century, scholars agreed that the stream running through Avening must, like a number of other rivers in Britain, have been called "Avon", and that this word was combined with the Old English suffix ("people, tribe"). Thus the name was thought to have meant "people of the Avon".