Stockbridge is a town and also civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is just one of the smallest communities in the UK with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It rests astride the River Test and at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The community is situated on the A30 road, which as soon as brought a lot of the traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon as well as Cornwall in the South West, though today this course is lesser than the A303 dual carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test resulted in the town's name, a regional tale suggested a coach quit equipped provisions, however it originates from an earlier bridge that was made of 'supplies' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 km) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 km) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 close by. The town's long high road was thus on a helpful course in between the two middle ages cathedral cities. The community's civil parish has a location of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's street crosses the River Test, noting the boundary of the churches of Stockbridge as well as Longstock by a reduced bridge of three arcs rebuilt as well as expanded in 1799. 5 smaller sized river networks flow with the town. For a brief time, to give area for fish, these were divided into eight artificial ditches just over the community. The community is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.