Stockbridge is a small town as well as civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is one of 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 community is situated on the A30 road, which once lugged most of the web traffic from London to Dorset, southern 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 led to the town's name, a neighborhood tale recommended a coach quit stocked stipulations, yet it derives from an earlier bridge that was made of 'supplies' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 kilometres) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 kilometres) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 close by. The town's lengthy high street was therefore on an useful path between the two middle ages cathedral cities. The community's civil church has a location of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's road crosses the River Test, marking the border of the parishes of Stockbridge as well as Longstock by a low bridge of three arcs rebuilt and also expanded in 1799. 5 smaller river channels flow through the community. For a brief time, to give space for fish, these were divided right into 8 artificial ditches just above the community. The community gets on a shared pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.