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Kidderminster Barge moving through a lock on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, with St. Mary and All Saints Church in the background, at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, Eng.

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Kidderminster, town, Wyre Forest district, administrative and historic county of Worcestershire, west-central England. It is situated along the River Stour and the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

Recorded as Stour-in-Usmere in 736 ce, it was given to the comes (count) Cyneberght by King Aethelbald of Mercia (reigned 716–757). Later it passed to the bishop of Worcester and thence to Cenwulf, king of Mercia (816), and it remained a royal manor until the reign of Henry II (1154–89). The town’s once-important cloth trade is first mentioned in 1334; carpet manufacture replaced that of woolen goods in 1735. Pop. (2001) 55,348; (2011) 55,530.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
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