Avening (/ˈeɪvnɪŋ/[2]) is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, about three miles (5 km) north of Tetbury.

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 -ingas ("people, tribe").

While recognising that he had no good alternative etymology to offer, Coates argued that the Gaulish place-name Aven(n)io, now Avignon, would from a phonological point of view be a viable basis for Æfeningas.

[3] Avening is also the name of a rural community immediately south of Creemore, Ontario, Canada, on the Mad River.

One of its pioneers was Frederick Thornbury, who built a flour mill and a sawmill in the Ontario community in 1860, and named the settlement "after his native place in England".