High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The River Frome is a river, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, which rises in Dodington Park, South Gloucestershire, and flows in a south westerly direction through Bristol, joining the former course of the river Avon in Bristol`s Floating Harbour. The mean flow at Frenchay is 60 cubic feet per second (1.7 m3/s) The name Frome is shared with several other rivers in South West England and means `fair, fine, brisk’. The river is familiarly known in east Bristol as the Danny.