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The road north of Oldswinford forms part of an ancient road, probably of Anglo-Saxon origin, joining the burhs of Worcester and Stafford.The crossing of the River Stour was probably the swine-ford that gave rise to the placenames Kingswinford and Oldswinford, and later to the name Stourbridge.
Stourbridge (/ ˈ s t aʊər b r ɪ dʒ /) is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England.Situated on the River Stour, the town lies around 11 miles (18 kilometres) west of Birmingham, at the southwestern edge of the Black Country conurbation.
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The canal branch to Stourbridge Town was built in the 18th century and ended in a basin west of Amblecote High Street (the A491 road) which mainly served the ironworks of John Bradley. In the 1830s a short extension to the canal was built under the roadway to serve the ironworks of Foster and Orme east of High Street. [1]
Norton is a suburb and council ward in the town of Stourbridge, West Midlands. It has a population of 11,943 [ 2 ] in an area of 569 hectares . The population is largely White British and self-identifies as predominantly Christian .
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and Stourbridge Canal meet at Stourton Junction, which places Stourton on the Stourport Ring, a navigable waterway popular with narrowboat holidaymakers. Stourton is situated either side of the A458 road, at the junction of the A449 between Wolverhampton and Kidderminster. The name, originally related ...
The road crossing there was the main road between the Saxon burhs of Worcester and Stafford. [5] However (conceivably), it was a crossing of the minor brook that runs east of the church and under Brook Road between the houses 2 (The Briars) and 4 (The Willows), Oldswinford.
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