Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a village and also civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is among the smallest towns in the UK 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 positioned on the A30 road, which when lugged the majority of the web traffic from London to Dorset, south Somerset, Devon and also Cornwall in the South West, though today this route is less important than the A303 dual carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test resulted in the town's name, a local tale suggested a train quit stocked stipulations, but it originates from an earlier bridge that was made from 'stocks' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 km) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 km) by the B3049 road that joins the A30 nearby. The town's lengthy high street was hence on an useful route in between the two middle ages cathedral cities. The town's civil parish has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's road goes across the River Test, noting the boundary of the churches of Stockbridge and also Longstock by a low bridge of three arcs rebuilt and widened in 1799. Five smaller river channels circulation via the town. For a brief time, to supply room for fish, these were divided into eight man-made ditches just above the community. The town gets on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.