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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 972 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STOURPORT  , a

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market
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town in the
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Bewdley
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parliamentary
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division of
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Worcestershire,
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England, 141 in . N. by W. of
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Worcester by the
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Great Western railway . Pop. of
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urban
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district (1g0r), 452g . It lies on the
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left
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bank of the
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Severn, at the junction of the
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Stour and the
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Staffordshire and Worcestershire
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canal . The town
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grew up after the opening of the canal in 1768 . Ironworks,
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carpet-
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weaving and tanneries occupy many hands . At Redstone, the site of a former important
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ferry over the Severn, is a curious hermitage, excavated out of the red
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sandstone bank .

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