River Ems (Chichester Harbour)

This page is about a small river that borders the counties of West Sussex and Hampshire in England. For the river in northwestern Germany and the Netherlands see Ems (river) For the river in Hesse, Germany, tributary of the Eder see Ems (Eder).

The River Ems is a much-sluiced, six miles (9.7 km) chalk stream that is located in the far west of the county of West Sussex, England. It flows from Stoughton in the north, then southwest through Westbourne to Emsworth in the South. The last one and a half miles (2.4 km), of this river, delimits eastern Hampshire, before flowing into the sea at Chichester Harbour.

The river was so named, the "Ems", by a chronicler in the Tudor period.

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