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Stourbridge
Sign in to saveStourbridge () is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. Situated on the River Stour, the town lies around west of Birmingham, at the southwestern edge of the Black Country conurbation. Historically in Worcestershire, it was the centre of British glass making during the Industrial Revolution. The 2021 UK census recorded the town's population as 56,950.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Stourbridge
- UK place.type
- Market town
- UK place.map_type
- West Midlands
- UK place.static_image_name
- Foster Street, Stourbridge - geograph.org.uk - 907117.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Foster Street, Stourbridge; leading towards the railway station
- UK place.population
- 56,950
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Dudley
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Midlands
- UK place.region
- West Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Stourbridge
- UK place.post_town
- STOURBRIDGE
- UK place.postcode_district
- DY7–DY9
- UK place.postcode_area
- DY
- UK place.dial_code
- 01384
- UK place.dial_code1
- 01562
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SO899844
- UK place.london_distance
- 125.8 miles/202 km
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Dudley
- Population
- 63298
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Kingswinford
- Image
- Foster Street, Stourbridge - geograph.org.uk - 907117.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stourbridge
- topic's main category
- Category:Stourbridge
- OS grid reference
- SO899844
- category for people born here
- Q28858577
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Stourbridge
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Closest cities, towns and villages
- History
- Glass Making in Stourbridge
- Present
- Transport
- Education
- Culture
- Festival of Glass
- Music
- Media
- Sport
- Places of interest
- Places of worship
- Notable residents
- In popular culture
- References
- External links
Stourbridge () is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. Situated on the River Stour, the town lies around west of Birmingham, at the southwestern edge of the Black Country conurbation. Historically in Worcestershire, it was the centre of British glass making during the Industrial Revolution. The 2021 UK census recorded the town's population as 56,950.
==Geography==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stourbridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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