Avonmouth (/ˈeɪ.vənmaʊθ/ AY-vən-mowth) is a port and outer suburb of Bristol, England, on the north bank of the mouth of the River Avon and the eastern shore of the Severn Estuary.

Part of the Port of Bristol, Avonmouth Docks is important to the region's maritime economy, hosting large vessels for the unloading and exporting of heavier goods.

[n 1] Avonmouth is approximately rectangular, its length favouring the Severn shore, and sits on the north bank of the Avon, west-north-west of Bristol city centre.

[7] Bewys Cross, a stone monument possibly dating from the 15th century, was located on the bank of the Severn close to the old mouth of the Avon.

[10] The Crown Brick Works were owned by Edwin Stride, with his sons Jared and Jethro (who later developed Sneyd Park), together with George Davis and William and Jarman Peters.

It provided accommodation for many Europeans emigrating to the Americas via Avonmouth, and during the First World War it housed the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.

Shirehampton had become a separate parish in 1844, and a Church of England chapel was established in the new settlement of Avonmouth late in the nineteenth century.

The rough grassland provides a refuge for voles, great crested newt and other small mammals,[18] which are preyed upon by kestrels and barn owls.

[19][20] Avonmouth is home to the largest single footprint warehouse in the United Kingdom,[21] a 1,250,000 sq ft portal frame building operated by The Range as a distribution centre.

The enormous building occupies 55 acres of land[22] and is part of the Central Park project located close to the Severn estuary shoreline.

Previously, the largest single footprint warehouse in the United Kingdom was a building operated by Amazon in Dunfermline, Scotland which covers 1,000,000 sq ft. Avonmouth is part of the Bristol North West constituency, which elects a member of Parliament (MP).

Shirehampton is a part of Bristol which has a medieval-founded village nucleus and contains buildings dating more than a century earlier than the earliest examples in Avonmouth.