..... Aven being departed from hence [Ringwood], entertaineth the river Stoure coming down out of Dorsetshire, where betweene the meeting of these two streames, there standeth a prety towne of trade and well peopled. At this day of a Church there dedicated unto Christ, named Christ-church: but in old time Twinamburne, because it is situate betweene the two rivers, right in the same sense that Interamna in Italie hath his name. It was fortified in times past with a Castle, and beautified with an ancient Church of Prebendaries, which being built in the Saxons time and after repaired by Rau'ph Flammard Bishop of Durrham (who was Deane there) in the reigne of William Rufus, and by Richard de Riparijs Earle of Devonshire (whom King Henrie the first enfeoffed in this place) endowed also with great rents and revenewes, continued in very great name untill the daies of King Henrie the Eighth, and that fatall and finall houre of the Monasteries of England, Under this towne Stoure and Aven joining together doe emptie themselves into the sea at one mouth, which Ptolomee called the mouth of the River Alaun; and rightly too: For I cannot resolve with my selfe to thinke, that the river properly was named Aven, considering this is a common name, and the Britans by that terme, called all rivers. But I would take it, that some time it was called Alaun, because there remain yet some reliques (as it were) of that name in the villages upon it, to wit, in Allington, Allingham, &c.;