River Ems is a river in England with its source at grid reference SU808122 about ½ a mile east of Stoughton, West Sussex and its mouth at Emsworth, Hampshire. It is named after the town of Emsworth rather than vice versa. The total length is a little over six miles. The Ems flows SW through Walderton. This section of the river bed may be dry in summer. At Walderton the Ems flows parallel to the B2146, past Racton Monument and through the village of Westbourne from where it flows south to pass under the railway at Emsworth, through Brook Meadow to the slipper Mill pond from where it discharges into the sea at the head of Emsworth Channel in Chichester Harbour.
References
- Brook Meadow Conservation Group "The River Ems and Its Related Watercourses"
- Rudkin, David J. The river Ems and related watercourses. Westbourne : David Rudkin, 1984. 82p. : ill., maps, port. Catalogue entry from the British Library
- Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 120.
