APPENDIX. 
ITINERARY THROUGH THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER, 
Monday, Sept. 2, 180;).—Down the Stour valley, 
good meadows, but some drainage wanted; Stafford¬ 
shire and Worcestershire canal goes down this valley 
nine miles in Worcestershire, with nine locks, and a 
fall of 90 feet to the Severn.—See Canals. Wolver- 
ley; light sandy soil, crops grown, barley, rye, wheat, 
pease, carrots, turnips, and clover. Harvest finished. 
Trees in the vale, poplar, willow ; in Wolverley 
woods, chesnut, oak, ash, whitehazel: Kidderminster, 
good meadows, and light rich upland; a large manufac¬ 
turing town : Mitton, poor light sand, producing rye, 
turnips, and barley ; very considerable iron works on 
the Stour, and on a stream called Broadwater, which 
falls into it, the property of Mr. Knight, Mr. Homfray, 
and others: Stourport, a new town and port on Severn, 
arisen in consequence of the above-named canal; a 
large depot for coal, iron, and various articles. 
September 3, to Worcester.—Hartlebury, deep rich 
light loam on Grit Stone Rock, harvest cut and mostly 
got, but some wheat out; crops, wheat, barley, pota¬ 
toes in rows, pease, turnips, both as a summer crop 
and sown on pea stubbles. 
Fruit 
