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River Stour, Worcestershire

Index River Stour, Worcestershire

The Stour is a river flowing through the counties of Worcestershire, the West Midlands and Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England. [1]

95 relations: Amblecote, Andrew Yarranton, Atlantic salmon, Balti (food), Belbroughton, Black Country, Blade mill, Blakedown, Brierley Hill, Broome, Worcestershire, Brown trout, Caunsall, Chain, Clent Hills, Coal mining, Coke (fuel), Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Cookley, Cradley, West Midlands, Domesday Book, Drainage divide, Drayton, Worcestershire, Dud Dudley, Dudley Canal, Dunsley, Staffordshire, Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley, Elbe, Enclave and exclave, Finery forge, Grey heron, Haffield Breccia, Halesowen, Harvington Hall, Hereford and Worcester, Historic counties of England, Holy Cross, Worcestershire, Hydronym, Isaac Taylor (priest), James Brindley, Kidderminster, Kingfisher, Kingsford, Worcestershire, Kinver, List of rivers of the United Kingdom, Lye, West Midlands, Margaret Gelling, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, Middle English, Nail (fastener), Navigable aqueduct, ..., New Red Sandstone, Old English, Old European hydronymy, Oldbury, West Midlands, Ordnance Survey, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, Pig iron, Plateau, Po (river), Prestwood, Prestwood (Kinver), Richard Coates, Richard Foley (ironmaster), River Severn, River Tame, West Midlands, Romsley, Worcestershire, Saint Kenelm, Sandstone, Scythe, Shropshire, Slitting mill, Smestow Brook, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, Stambermill Viaduct, Stör, Stone, Worcestershire, Stourbridge, Stourbridge Canal, Stourport-on-Severn, Stourton, Staffordshire, Table (landform), Tributary, Trout, West Midlands (county), West Midlands (region), Wilden Ironworks, Wilden, Worcestershire, Wollaston, West Midlands, Wolverhampton, Wolverley, Wombourne, Worcester, Worcestershire. Expand index (45 more) »

Amblecote

Amblecote is an urban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England.

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Andrew Yarranton

Andrew Yarranton (1619–1684) was an important English engineer in the 17th century who was responsible for making several rivers into navigable waterways.

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Atlantic salmon

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Balti (food)

A balti or bāltī gosht (بالٹی گوشت, बाल्टी गोश्त) is a type of Lamb meat or goat meat curry served in a thin, pressed-steel wok called a "balti bowl".

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Belbroughton

Belbroughton is a village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England.

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Black Country

The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands in England, west of Birmingham, and commonly refers to all or part of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

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Blade mill

A blade mill was a variety of water mill used for sharpening newly fabricated blades, including scythes, swords, sickles, and knives.

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Blakedown

Blakedown is a village in the Wyre Forest District in the north of the county of Worcestershire, England.

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Brierley Hill

Brierley Hill is a small town and electoral ward of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England, and is situated approximately 2.5 miles south of central Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge.

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Broome, Worcestershire

Broome is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England.

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Brown trout

The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally.

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Caunsall

Caunsall is a hamlet in Worcestershire, England a few miles to the north of Kidderminster and close to the villages of Kinver, Cookley and Wolverley.

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Chain

A chain is a serial assembly of connected pieces, called links, typically made of metal, with an overall character similar to that of a rope in that it is flexible and curved in compression but linear, rigid, and load-bearing in tension.

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Clent Hills

The Clent Hills lie south-west of Birmingham city centre in Clent, Worcestershire, England.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, usually made from coal.

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Henry Watson Fowler The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is probably the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries.

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Cookley

Cookley is a village in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the north of Kidderminster, and close to the villages of Kinver and Wolverley.

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Cradley, West Midlands

Cradley is a village in the Black Country and Metropolitan Borough of Dudley; near Halesowen and the banks of the River Stour.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Drainage divide

A drainage divide, water divide, divide, ridgeline, watershed, or water parting is the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins.

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Drayton, Worcestershire

Drayton is a village in Worcestershire, England which remains part of the ecclesiastical parish of Chaddesley Corbett, which from its select vestry formed a civil parish and which also continues.

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Dud Dudley

Dudd (Dud) Dudley (1600–1684) was an English metallurgist, who fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War as a soldier, military engineer, and supplier of munitions.

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Dudley Canal

The Dudley Canal is a canal passing through Dudley in the West Midlands of England.

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Dunsley, Staffordshire

Dunsley is a hamlet in Kinver, Staffordshire, England.

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Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley

Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley (1567 – 23 June 1643) was a major landowner, mainly in Staffordshire and Worcestershire, and briefly a Member of the House of Commons of England.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Elbe; Low German: Elv) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Enclave and exclave

An enclave is a territory, or a part of a territory, that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state.

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Finery forge

A finery forge is a hearth used to fine (i.e., produce, refine) wrought iron, through the decarburization of the pig iron.

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Grey heron

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa.

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Haffield Breccia

Haffield Breccia, or Clent Breccia, (now known as the Haffield and Clent Formations) consist of a texturally immature compacted gravel, rich in volcanic clasts with some sedimentary rocks, in a sandy or muddy matrix, which outcrops in the English Midlands, in South Staffordshire, Birmingham and the Malverns.

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Halesowen

Halesowen is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England.

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Harvington Hall

Harvington Hall is a moated medieval and Elizabethan manor house in the hamlet of Harvington in the civil parish of Chaddesley Corbett, south-east of Kidderminster in the English county of Worcestershire.

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Hereford and Worcester

Hereford and Worcester was an English county created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from the areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge and Warley, which became part of the West Midlands) and the county borough of Worcester.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.

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Holy Cross, Worcestershire

Holy Cross is one of five hamlets in village of Clent in the county of Worcestershire, England.

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Hydronym

A hydronym (from ὕδωρ, hydor, "water" and ὄνομα, onoma, "name") is a proper name of a body of water.

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Isaac Taylor (priest)

Isaac Taylor (2 May 1829 – 18 October 1901), son of Isaac Taylor, was a philologist, toponymist, and Anglican canon of York (from 1885).

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James Brindley

James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer.

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Kidderminster

Kidderminster is a large town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England.

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Kingfisher

Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.

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Kingsford, Worcestershire

Kingsford is a hamlet in Worcestershire, England.

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Kinver

Kinver is a large village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England.

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List of rivers of the United Kingdom

For details of rivers of the United Kingdom, see.

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Lye, West Midlands

Lye or The Lye is a suburban area of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England.

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Margaret Gelling

Margaret Joy Gelling, OBE (née Midgley, 29 November 1924 – 24 April 2009) was an English toponymist, known for her extensive studies of English place-names.

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Metropolitan Borough of Dudley

The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley is a metropolitan borough of West Midlands in England.

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Middle English

Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.

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Nail (fastener)

In woodworking and construction, a nail is a pin-shaped object of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration.

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Navigable aqueduct

Navigable aqueducts (sometimes called water bridges) are bridge structures that carry navigable waterway canals over other rivers, valleys, railways or roads.

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New Red Sandstone

The New Red Sandstone, chiefly in British geology, is composed of beds of red sandstone and associated rocks laid down throughout the Permian (280 million years ago) to the end of the Triassic (about 200 million years ago), that underlie the Jurassic-Triassic age Penarth Group.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old European hydronymy

Old European (Alteuropäisch) is the term used by Hans Krahe (1964) for the language of the oldest reconstructed stratum of European hydronymy (river names) in Central and Western Europe.

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Oldbury, West Midlands

Oldbury is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England.

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Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey (OS) is a national mapping agency in the United Kingdom which covers the island of Great Britain.

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Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway

The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OW&WR) was a railway company in England.

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Pig iron

Pig iron is an intermediate product of the iron industry.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.

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Po (river)

The Po (Padus and Eridanus; Po; ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus; Πάδος, Ἠριδανός) is a river that flows eastward across northern Italy.

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Prestwood

Prestwood is a village in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Prestwood (Kinver)

Prestwood is a hamlet now in the parish of Kinver, but in the Kingswinford until the creation of Brierley Hill Urban District in the 1930s.

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Richard Coates

Richard Coates (born 16 April 1949, in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and educated at Wintringham School) is an English linguist.

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Richard Foley (ironmaster)

Richard Foley (1580–1657) was a prominent English ironmaster.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren, Sabrina) is a river in the United Kingdom.

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River Tame, West Midlands

The River Tame is the main river of the West Midlands of England, and the most important tributary of the River Trent.

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Romsley, Worcestershire

Romsley is a village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove District of Worcestershire, England, on the east side of the Clent Hills about 4 miles south of Halesowen.

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Saint Kenelm

Saint Kenelm (or Cynehelm) was an Anglo-Saxon saint, venerated throughout medieval England, and mentioned in the Canterbury Tales (the Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 290–301, in which the cook Chaunteecleer tries to demonstrate the reality of prophetic dreams to his wife Pertelote).

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Scythe

A scytheOxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1933: Scythe is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian) is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south.

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Slitting mill

The slitting mill was a watermill for slitting bars of iron into rods.

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Smestow Brook

The Smestow Brook, sometimes called the River Smestow, is a small river that plays an important part in the drainage of Wolverhampton, South Staffordshire, and parts of Dudley in the United Kingdom, and has contributed to the industrial development of the Black Country.

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South Staffordshire

South Staffordshire is a local government district in Staffordshire, England.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal

The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is a navigable narrow canal in Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the English Midlands.

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Stambermill Viaduct

Stambermill Viaduct is a viaduct situated in Stourbridge, West Midlands, England.

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Stör

The Stör is a river in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, right tributary of the Elbe.

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Stone, Worcestershire

Stone is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England.

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Stourbridge

Stourbridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands county of England.

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Stourbridge Canal

The Stourbridge Canal is a canal in the West Midlands of England.

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Stourport-on-Severn

Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and down stream on the River Severn from Bewdley.

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Stourton, Staffordshire

Stourton pronounced ‘Storton’ is a hamlet in Staffordshire, England a few miles to the northwest of Stourbridge.

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Table (landform)

A table is a butte, flank of a mountain, or mountain, that has a flat top.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Trout

Trout is the common name for a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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West Midlands (region)

The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Wilden Ironworks

The village of Wilden is in the English county of Worcestershire.

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Wilden, Worcestershire

Wilden is a small village about 1 mile north east of Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire.

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Wollaston, West Midlands

Wollaston is a suburb of Stourbridge, in West Midlands, England.

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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Wolverley

Wolverley is a village; with nearby Cookley (1 mi northeast), it forms a civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England.

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Wombourne

Wombourne (also spelt Wombourn) is a large village and civil parish located in the district of South Staffordshire, in the county of Staffordshire, 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Wolverhampton and just outside the county and conurbation of the West Midlands.

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Worcester

Worcester is a city in Worcestershire, England, southwest of Birmingham, west-northwest of London, north of Gloucester and northeast of Hereford.

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Worcestershire

Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Stour,_Worcestershire

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