Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a town and civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is among the smallest communities in the United Kingdom with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test and at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is situated on the A30 road, which as soon as brought a lot of the web traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon as well as Cornwall in the South West, though today this path is lesser than the A303 double carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test brought about the town's name, a regional legend suggested a trainer quit equipped arrangements, yet it originates 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 km) by the B3049 road that joins the A30 close by. The community's lengthy high street was thus on an useful route in between the two medieval cathedral cities. The community's civil church has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's street crosses the River Test, noting the boundary of the churches of Stockbridge and also Longstock by a reduced bridge of 3 arcs rebuilt and widened in 1799. Five smaller river networks circulation via the community. For a brief time, to give space for fish, these were split into 8 man-made ditches simply above the town. The community gets on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
