Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a town as well as 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 positioned on the A30 road, which as soon as lugged a lot of the web traffic from London to Dorset, south Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in the South West, though today this course is lesser than the A303 dual carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test brought about the community's name, a neighborhood legend suggested a coach quit stocked arrangements, but 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 kilometres) by the B3049 road that joins the A30 nearby. The community's long high road was hence on a beneficial course in between the two middle ages cathedral cities. The community's civil parish has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's road crosses the River Test, marking the border of the churches of Stockbridge and also Longstock by a low bridge of three arcs rebuilt and also broadened in 1799. Five smaller sized river channels circulation with the community. For a short time, to offer area for fish, these were split into 8 man-made ditches simply above the town. The town is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
