River Ouse, Sussex
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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.
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".
The author Virginia Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941, near the village of Rodmell.