MITTON (LOWER), a chapelry in the parish of KIDDERMINSTER, lower division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, and containing, with the town of Stourport, 2544 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Kidderminster. The chapel, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small unadorned edifice of brick, erected in 1790, the chancel at the expense of John Folliott, Esq., as lord of the manor of Lickhill. In Leland's time, Mitton was distinguished for the number of its corn-mills, for the establishment of which, the river Stour, branching here in various directions, afforded great convenience. There are now a manufactory for worsted-yarn, an ironfoundry, a tannery, and a vinegar-yard. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal joins the Severn at this place, and, by uniting that river with the Trent, affords an extended line of inland navigation for the conveyance of goods; whence the origin and growth of the adjoining town of Stourport, now a depdt for the manufactures and agricultural produce of the surrounding counties, and described under its proper-head.