Do you know your South Downs rivers?

August 30, 2018

How much do you know about the National Park’s rivers? For World Rivers Day on 23 September we’ve put together a little quiz to test you.

There are seven main rivers that carve their way through the South Downs National Park – can you name them?
The river Itchen is 45km from its source to Southampton and the chalk it runs through helps to keep it ‘gin clear’ making it a hit for anglers and otters alike. How much of the river runs through the National Park?
- 9.7km
- 23.2km
- 58.5km
Which is the only river to lie entirely in the South Downs National Park from source to where it, ahem, Stophams?
Clue: It shares its name with two others UK rivers, one runs through East Sussex and Kent and the other in South Yorkshire.
Which South Downs river, where water vole were locally extinct in 2012, now has a thriving population thanks to a local reintroduction programme?
Rivers migrate and move over time. Which two South Downs rivers which today run very different courses, once shared an estuary in Lancing?
Which river’s name’s literal translation means ‘water river’?
Which river’s mouth sits at the heart of England’s first Heritage Coastline, an area which receives more than a million visitors every year?