Avon was, from 1974 to 1996, a non-metropolitan and stylized region in the west of Britain. The region was named after the Stream Avon, which moves through the region. It was framed from the area precincts of Bristol and Shower, together with parts of the managerial regions of Gloucestershire and Somerset. The Stream Avon is an English waterway in the south west of the nation. To recognize it from ious different streams of a similar name, this waterway is frequently otherwise called the Bristol Avon. The name "Avon" is a related of the Welsh word afon, "waterway