Kinver Edge, which incorporates the former Kingsford Country Park in Worcestershire, comprises approximately 600 acres of land owned by the National Trust and open to the public.

The village has a number of events throughout the year, including open gardens, beer festivals at various venues and concerts at the Community Centre and St. Peter's Church.

The village High Street was laid out as the burgages of a new town by the lord of the manor in the late 13th century and was administered by a borough court, separate for the manorial court for the rest of the manor of Kinver and Stourton (known as Kinfare Foreign).

[3] Kinver was known for making sturdy woollen cloth, using the flow of the Stour for fulling mills and dyeing.

The village also profited from being a stop on the great "Irish Road" from Bristol to Chester (until the 19th century, the port of embarkation for Ireland), the 'White Hart' being the oldest and largest inn.

During his flight from the Battle of Worcester King Charles II made his way over Whittington Heath into nearby Stourbridge.

In 1771 the area was opened up to trade by the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, built by James Brindley.

According to local eyewitness accounts,[citation needed] a panther may roam the woods and fields of Kinver.

Other myths and legends include the sightings of many ghosts and spirits, especially around the area of the Scout camp which is situated between the Edge and St Peter's Church.

[citation needed] Other famous hauntings include the spirit of Lady Jane Grey, (who, for nine days, was intruded as Queen of England immediately prior to Queen Mary Tudor) whose ghost has been reported at the Whittington Inn, and the infamous William Howe, a footpad who murdered Benjamin Robins of Dunsley Hall and became the penultimate person to be gibbeted at nearby Gibbet Lane in the early 19th century.

There is a long-standing tradition that Wulfhere King of Mercia (succeeded 657) dedicated the parish church of St Peter in memory of his sons, Wulphad and Ruffius, who he had killed in anger when they converted to Christianity (Seisdon Council Guide, 1966).

These connections were withdrawn in 2017 as part of cuts in funding a number of bus services in the county of Staffordshire.

[6] There are notable rock or cave houses on Kinver Edge, carved from the sandstone, some inhabited as late as the 1960s.

[7] Such rock houses were the setting of a book and silent film, Bladys of the Stewponey (1919, Sabine Baring-Gould), but most of this has since been lost.

The "Stewponey" refers to an ancient inn (now demolished and replaced by flats) at Stourton in Kinver parish.

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