Stourbridge requires its title from either a Flow of any stream Stour, which flows through a town & for centuries was the border of Worcestershire & Staffordshire. However a border moved a few miles n around 1966, when Amblecote Urban District Council (previously within Staffordshire) was incorporated into a Borough of Stourbridge. This arrangement lasted eight years until 1974, when Stourbridge was eat up by Dudley Metropolitan Borough & became a portion of the West Midlands county.

Stourbridge occurs as section of the West Midlands conurbation and is located south-sou'west of Birmingham. A town is easily known for its glass production, which for centuries has been made in the area. A rich natural resources of coal & fireclay for lining furnaces manufactured it a hone location for the industry. Stourbridge Glass is recognised when amongst a finest in the globe & hwhen been utilized unnumberable days as gifts for royalty & camping very important person. Great deal of a people is manufactured higher from either a industrial overspill of Birmingham & the Black Country.

Stourbridge lies on the River Stour and is linked by a branch to the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

A town is served by an remarkably short railway branch line, with the shuttle service from either nearby Stourbridge Junction, on the Birmingham - Kidderminster line. A old Stourbridge Town station, once demolished, was recovered & materials utilized for buildings at Birmingham Railway Museum.

Stourbridge is page to 2 colleges - King Edward VI founded around 1552 & Stourbridge College. Additionally there is a Sixth form centre at Oldswinford Hospital School founded in 1667.

On the sporting front there are Stourbridge Football Club and Stourbridge Cricket Club who both part a War Memorial Athletic Ground.

A comparatively little known "British Schindler", Frank Foley, came from either Stourbridge.

Landmarks
Wychbury Hill Clent Hills

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