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"HARTLEBURY, a parish partly in the lower division of the hundred of Oswaldslow, and partly in that of Halfshire, county Worcester, 2 miles E. of Stourport, its post town, 4 S. of Kidderminster, and 6 N.W. of Droitwich. It is a station on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton railway. The parish, which is considerable, is situated near the Worcestershire and Staffordshire canal, and the river Severn. It contains the hamlet of Upper Mitton. Here are extensive iron and tin works, which afford employment to many of the inhabitants."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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