River Ouse, Sussex

The Ouse at Lewes

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The Ouse [ uz ] is a river in the county of East Sussex in southern England.

It rises south of Crawley and initially flows in a generally easterly direction. To the east of Newick and west of Uckfield, the river then turns south. It flows east past Lewes and opens at Newhaven in the English Channel.

1790, after William Jessop had surveyed the river, started by a decision of the Parliament to straighten the river and channel, although the shipping almost exclusively served the regional economy on the convoluted nature of the river. In several phases until 1812 did the Ouse Navigation.

After the construction of the London and Brighton Railway in 1861 the freight traffic on the developed flow was adjusted. The railway line crosses today on the Ouse Valley Viaduct north of Haywards Heath and south of Balcombe the river. (51 ° 2 ' 5 " N, 0 ° 6' 52" W51.034742 - 0.114337 ) The brick -built 29 -meter-high railway viaduct is 450 m long and is now a Grade II protected building. In Newhaven crossing the swing bridge of Newhaven Swing Bridge, which is no longer open, the river. (50 ° 47 '42 " N, 0 ° 3' 8" O50.7949230.052271 )

The writer Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941 near the village of Rodmell in the Ouse.