Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a small town and civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is one of the smallest towns in the United Kingdom with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test as well as at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is positioned on the A30 road, which as soon as brought most of the web traffic from London to Dorset, south Somerset, Devon as well as Cornwall in the South West, though today this route is lesser than the A303 double carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test resulted in the town's name, a neighborhood tale recommended a train stop stocked provisions, however it derives from an earlier bridge that was constructed from 'stocks' (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 close by. The town's lengthy high street was hence on a beneficial route in between the two middle ages cathedral cities. The community's civil church has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's street goes across the River Test, noting the boundary of the parishes of Stockbridge and also Longstock by a low bridge of 3 arcs rebuilt and also broadened in 1799. Five smaller sized river channels flow with the community. For a brief time, to give area for fish, these were split right into 8 synthetic ditches just above the community. The town is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
