Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a small town and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It is one of the tiniest communities in the UK with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It rests astride the River Test as well as at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is situated on the A30 road, which when brought the majority of the web traffic from London to Dorset, south Somerset, Devon and also Cornwall in the South West, though today this path is lesser than the A303 twin carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test resulted in the community's name, a regional legend suggested an instructor quit stocked provisions, but it stems from an earlier bridge that was made of 'stocks' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 kilometres) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 km) by the B3049 road that joins the A30 close by. The community's long high street was thus on a valuable route in between both middle ages cathedral cities. The community's civil church has a location of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's road goes across the River Test, marking the boundary of the parishes of Stockbridge and Longstock by a low bridge of three arcs rebuilt and widened in 1799. Five smaller sized river channels circulation via the town. For a brief time, to offer area for fish, these were divided into 8 fabricated ditches simply above the community. The town is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
