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A TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT

OF

AND ITS

IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

BY KENRICK WATSON, ESQ. SURGEON.

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''Description of the Town, &c. &c.''

TOUPORT 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. 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