Bow Hill is an elongated hill ridge, 206 metres high, and running roughly from north to south in the South Downs, in the county of West Sussex, England. It has a prominence of 74 metres.
The River Lavant is a chalk river winterbourne that rises at East Dean and flows west to Singleton, then south past West Dean and Lavant to Chichester. From east of Chichester its natural course was s
Bow Hill, West Sussex
…To the south are Stoke Down and the village of West Stoke; to the east and southeast are the villages of West Dean and Mid Lavant in the valley of the River Lavant, to the north are East Marden and Chilgrove. Bow Hill is the highest point on a north-to-south running and steep-sided ridge and there is a trig point…
East Dean is recognised as the source of the Lavant, springs feeding the village pond
Lavant passing by West Dean estate, February 2007
Culverts enable the Lavant to pass underground at Southgate c. overground beside Market Avenue