River Ouse, Sussex
The River Ouse is a river in the county of East Sussex in England. It rises south of Crawley, passes through Lewes and the South Downs and joins the English Channel at Newhaven, East Sussex.
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River - County - East Sussex - England - Crawley - Lewes - South Downs - English Channel - Newhaven, East Sussex
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Unlike the other British rivers called the Ouse, whose name comes from a Scandinavian root cognate with "oose", its name comes from a corruption of the French "Riviere de Lewes".
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The author Virginia Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941, near the village of Rodmell.
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Virginia Woolf - Rodmell
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