This visit in August 2004 came at the end of a day of unrewarding drain hunting in Southampton.
We'd spent most of the day searching and turned up nothing of merit and so were driving home a little
defeated. We swung by Chichester off the back of vague memories of the River that runs through there
once flooding and bubbling up through the covers of its culverted sections.
During the spring and summer months when the water table is low the River Lavant is little more than a dry bed,
which is exactly what we found. Its course takes it between houses and businesses and eventually underground
into a wide low brick culvert. Sadly the entire length of the town centre culvert is stoopy at around 5ft, its
constrution varies from red brick to concrete box, splitting at one point into twin parallel brick arches that
reform into the wide low arch of most of its length. It's no more than a half hour explore, but a bit of fun if your real
close by.
