A TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT
OF
STOURPORT, WORCESTERSHIRE,
AND ITS
IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD.
BY KENRICK WATSON, ESQ. SURGEON.
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STOUPORT is situated in the hamlet of Lower
Mitton, the parish of Kidderminster, and the county
of Worcester, and is distant eleven miles from that
city. It is bounded on the south by the river Severn,
on the east by the Stour, on the north by the hamlet
of Upper Mitton, and on the north-west by part of
the Foreign of Kidderminster. It is distant 122
miles from London, and about 100 miles from the
nearest part of the coast. Its height, above the level
of the sea, is 58 ft. 7 in.[1] Its longitude is 2° 10′ W.,
its latitude 52° 24′ N. The river Stour rises in the
celebrated grounds belonging to the Leasowes, near
to the town of Hales Owen. Its waters are considered
to be excellent for all the processes of dyeing, and a
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ft. in. Level of Canal is, above the low water mark at Liverpool, 99 7 Bank of Severn at Stour Bridge is, above low water at Liverpool, 58 7 ──── Rise, 41 9
