River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England

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The River Ouse near Lewes in Sussex, England, is a rural stretch of river best known as the place where modernist writer Virginia Woolf ended her life in 1941.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf river reach
access public footpath access in several places
country United Kingdom
culturalAssociation Bloomsbury Group
surface form: Bloomsbury Group (via Virginia Woolf)
dateOfEvent 28 March 1941
drainageBasin River Ouse (Sussex) catchment
ecoregion South East England lowlands
environment floodplain landscape
pastoral farmland surroundings
eventParticipant Virginia Woolf
flowsThrough River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ouse Valley near Lewes
hasCharacteristic non-tidal (at this reach)
rural
hasInfrastructure farm crossings
footpaths along the riverbank
hasNotableEvent Virginia Woolf's suicide in 1941
hasViewOf South Downs National Park
surface form: South Downs National Park (nearby hills)
hasWildlife freshwater fish
waterfowl
hydrologicalRelation upstream of tidal section near Newhaven
knownFor site of Virginia Woolf's death
locatedIn East Sussex
England
Lewes
Sussex
United Kingdom
memorializedBy memorial plaque near the river
near Lewes Brooks
Monk's House
surface form: Monk's House, Rodmell

Rodmell
South Downs
partOf River Ouse
surface form: River Ouse, Sussex
region South East England
risk flooding in surrounding low-lying land
usedFor angling
boating
recreation
watercourseType lowland river

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Virginia Woolf placeOfDeath River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England
River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England flowsThrough River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ouse Valley near Lewes