Stockbridge is a small town and also civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is one of the tiniest towns in the UK with a population of 592 since the 2011 census. It rests astride the River Test and also at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is positioned on the A30 road, which when brought a lot of the traffic from London to Dorset, south Somerset, Devon as well as 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 community's name, a local legend suggested a trainer stop stocked arrangements, 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 nearby. The town's long high road was therefore on an useful route in between the two middle ages cathedral cities. The town's civil church has a location of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's road crosses the River Test, noting the border of the parishes of Stockbridge as well as Longstock by a low bridge of 3 arches rebuilt as well as expanded in 1799. Five smaller river channels flow with the community. For a short time, to give room for fish, these were split right into eight man-made ditches simply above the town. The town gets on a shared pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.