The River Kird is a river located in the

Chichester District Chichester is a local government district in West Sussex, England. It is named after the city of Chichester, which is its largest settlement and where the council is based. The district includes the towns of Midhurst, Petworth and Selsey and s ...

West Sussex West Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Surrey to the north, East Sussex to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Hampshire to the west. The largest settlement is Cr ...

, England that is a

tributary A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...

to the

River Arun The River Arun () is a river in the English county of West Sussex. At long, it is the longest river entirely in Sussex and one of the longest starting in Sussex after the River Medway, River Wey and River Mole. From the series of small stre ...

. It is located in

South Downs National Park The South Downs National Park is England's newest national parks of England and Wales, national park, designated on 31 March 2010. The park, covering an area of in southern England, stretches for from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in t ...

.Project to shed light on river’s health
.

– ''southdowns.gov.uk''. Retrieved 9 November 2021.

Course

Located entirely in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England, the river rises in the

western Weald The western Weald is an area of undulating countryside in Hampshire and West Sussex containing a mixture of woodland and heathland areas. It lies to the south of the towns of Bordon, Haslemere and Rake, West Sussex, Rake and to the west of the to ...

– an area of undulating countryside – north of

Kirdford Kirdford is a village and civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. Its nearest town is Petworth, located southwest of the village. The parish has an area of . In the 2001 census 912 people lived in 373 households, of wh ...

, and flows south-east until it reaches Kirdford, at which point it flows eastwards; in

Wisborough Green Wisborough Green is a village and civil parish in West Sussex, England, west of Billingshurst on the A272 road. Newbridge, where the A273 crosses the River Arun east of the village, was the highest point of the Arun Navigation, and the sout ...

, the river receives the waters of Boxal Brook then resumes its south-easterly course before flowing into the River Arun.

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(2005) "Crawley & Horsham OS Explorer Map 134 (1:25 000 scale)". Retrieved 9 November 2021.

Flora and fauna

The river lies in the

, an area of undulating countryside containing a mixture of woodland and heathland areas. A 2017 study by Dr. Alison Barker

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recorded eight species of

damselfly Damselflies are flying insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies (which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Epiprocta) but are usually smaller and have slimmer bodies. Most species fold the win ...

and eleven species of

dragonfly A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata. About 3,000 extant species of dragonflies are known. Most are tropical, with fewer species in temperate regions. Loss of wetland habitat threat ...

that inhabited the river.

Pollution

In December 2013, a high level of

ammonia Ammonia is an inorganic chemical compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the chemical formula, formula . A Binary compounds of hydrogen, stable binary hydride and the simplest pnictogen hydride, ammonia is a colourless gas with a distinctive pu ...

pollution was found in the river by Kirkford, which was deadly to the river's fish. In September 2016, a dairy farm was ordered to pay an £8,000 fine for letting

effluent Effluent is wastewater from sewers or industrial outfalls that flows directly into surface waters, either untreated or after being treated at a facility. The term has slightly different meanings in certain contexts, and may contain various pol ...

pollute a stretch of the river.Billingshurst farm fined for polluting river
, 30 September 2016. ''

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''. Retrieved 9 November 2021.

References

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