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Kidderminster
Kidderminster is a town in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. It is located approximately south-west of Birmingham city centre and approximately north of Worcester city centre. The 2011 census recorded a population of 55,530 in the town. The town is twinned with Husum, Germany and it forms the majority of the Wyre Forest Conurbation, an urban area of 99,000.
==History==
The land around Kidderminster may have been first populated by the Husmerae, an Anglo-Saxon tribe first mentioned in the Ismere Diploma, a document in which Ethelbald of Mercia granted a "parcel of land of ten hides" to Cyneberht.〔John Blair, ''The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society'' (New York, Oxford University Press, 2005)〕 This became the settlement of Stour-in-Usmere, which was later the subject of a territorial dispute settled by Offa of Mercia in 781, where he restored certain rights to Bishop Heathored.〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43103〕 This allowed for the creation of a monastery or ''minstre'' in the area, and the earliest written form of the name Kidderminster (Chedeminstre) was not seen until it appeared in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. It was a large manor held by William I with 16 outlying settlements (Bristitune, Fastochesfeld, Franche, Habberley, Hurcott, Mitton, Oldington, Ribbesford, Sudwale, Sutton, Teulesberge, Trimpley, Wannerton and Wribbenhall). Various spellings were in use – Kedeleministre or Kideministre (in the 12th and 13th centuries), Kidereministre (13th–15th centuries) – until the name of the town was settled as Kidderminster by the 16th century.〔 Between 1156 and 1162 Henry II granted the manor to his steward, Manasser Biset, and as the settlement grew a fair (1228) and later a market (1240) were established there.〔 In a visit to the town sometime around 1540, King's Antiquary John Leland noted that Kidderminster "standeth most by clothing".〔 King Charles I granted the Borough of Kidderminster a Charter in 1636.〔 the original charter can be viewed at Kidderminster Town Hall
A parliamentary report of 1777 listed Kidderminster Borough as having a parish workhouse accommodating up to 70 inmates. Under the so-called Gilbert's Act of 1782 Kidderminster Union was established for the purpose of relieving the indigent poor.
Kidderminster has two Commissioners' churches. The first was St. George's church, on Radford Avenue. This was designed by Francis Goodwin and built in 1821–1824,〔''The Buildings of England: Worcestershire'', Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p206〕 finally being consecrated in April 1824. It had the third largest grant by the Commission, of just over £17,000.00, of any church outside London.〔''A History of Kidderminster'', Nigel Gilbert, 2004 Phillimore. p89 and p102〕 The second church was St. John's Church, on the Bewdley Road. This church was built in 1843 and the architect was Matthew Steele, although the grant in this case was just over £4,000.〔 To the south by the river Stour, dating from the 15th century, is a single surviving tower of Caldwall (or Caldwell) Castle, a fortified manor house.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-156422-caldwall-hall-kidderminster )〕
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