Stockbridge is a town as well as civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is among the tiniest communities in the UK with a population of 592 since the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test and also at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is located on the A30 road, which when carried a lot of the website traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in the South West, though today this path is less important than the A303 twin carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test led to the town's name, a neighborhood tale suggested a trainer quit stocked provisions, but it stems 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 kilometres) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 nearby. The town's long high street was therefore on a helpful route in between both middle ages cathedral cities. The town's civil church has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's street crosses the River Test, marking the border of the churches of Stockbridge and Longstock by a reduced bridge of three arches rebuilt as well as broadened in 1799. Five smaller sized river networks flow via the community. For a quick time, to supply room for fish, these were divided into 8 man-made ditches simply above the community. The town is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.