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Amblecoat or Amblecote, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, in Old Swinford parish, Staffordshire. The former stands on the southern verge of the county, at the river Stour; and is suburban to Stourbridge, being separated from it only by the river. Post town, Stourbridge. Acreage, 665; population, 2876. The inhabitants are employed chiefly in glass-works, collieries, and iron-works. There is an extensive bed of fireclay in the neighbourhood. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; value, £260. The church stands on an eminence, was opened in 1842, and is a pleasing structure of fire-brick in the Early English style.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5

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