Stour
a river of England 47 miles long, flowing E. along the Suffolk and Essex boundary to the North Sea at Harwich.
STOURBRIDGE (stur'brij), a market town of Worcestershire, England, on the Stour, at the border of Staffordshire and the Black Country; 4½ miles S. by W. of Dudley and 12 W. by S. of Birmingham. The famous fireclay named for this town is said to have been discovered about 1555 by wandering glassmakers from Lorraine. Stourbridge has glass, earthenware, and firebrick works, besides manufactories of iron nails, chains, leather, etc. It has a grammar school (at which Samuel Johnson passed a year), a corn exchange, county court, mechanics' institute, etc.