Stourport, a town of Worcestershire, at the Stour's influx to the Severn, and the terminus of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, 14 miles by rail N. by W. of Worcester and 4 SSW. of Kidderminster. Dating from 1770, it is a clean, neat place, with manufactures of carpets, iron, glass, &c. Pop. (1851) 2923; (1891) 3504.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 756
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