Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a small town and civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is among the tiniest towns in the UK with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test and at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The community is located on the A30 road, which once brought a lot of the website traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon as well as Cornwall in the South West, though today this path is lesser than the A303 dual carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test brought about the town's name, a regional tale recommended a coach quit stocked stipulations, however it derives from an earlier bridge that was made from 'supplies' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 kilometres) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 km) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 nearby. The community's long high road was thus on a helpful path between both middle ages cathedral cities. The community's civil church has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's street crosses the River Test, noting the boundary of the churches of Stockbridge as well as Longstock by a reduced bridge of 3 arcs rebuilt and also widened in 1799. Five smaller sized river networks flow through the community. For a brief time, to provide area for fish, these were divided right into 8 fabricated ditches simply over the town. The town is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
