River Ouse (English Channel)
River Ouse | ||
The Ouse at Lewes |
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location | Sussex , England | |
River system | River Ouse (English Channel) | |
River basin district | South east | |
source | south of Crawley 51 ° 2 ′ 35 ″ N , 0 ° 13 ′ 53 ″ E |
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muzzle | at Newhaven in the English Channel Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 56 ″ N , 0 ° 3 ′ 27 ″ W 50 ° 46 ′ 56 ″ N , 0 ° 3 ′ 27 ″ W
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Left tributaries | Longford Stream | |
Right tributaries | River Uck , Glynde Reach | |
Flowing lakes | Mill Pond | |
Small towns | Lewes , Newhaven | |
Ports | Newhaven Harbor |
The River Ouse [ u: z ] is a river in East Sussex, in southern England.
It rises south of Crawley and initially flows in a generally easterly direction. The river then turns south east of Newick and west of Uckfield . It flows east past Lewes and flows into the English Channel at Newhaven .
In 1790, after William Jessop had measured the river, a resolution by parliament began to straighten and canalize the river, although shipping on the naturally winding river served almost exclusively the regional economy. The Ouse Navigation was built in several construction phases until 1812 .
After the construction of the Brighton Main Line in 1861, goods traffic on the expanded river was stopped. The railway line still crosses the river on the brick-walled Ouse Valley Viaduct north of Haywards Heath and south of Balcombe . In Newhaven, the Newhaven Swing Bridge , which will no longer open, crosses the river. ( 50 ° 47 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 0 ° 3 ′ 8.2 ″ E )
The writer Virginia Woolf drowned herself in 1941 near Rodmell in the Ouse.
Web links
- History of Ouse Navigation (English)
- Ouse Valley Viaduct at English Heritage (English)