Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a town and also civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It is among the smallest communities in the UK with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test and also at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is situated on the A30 road, which once carried most of the traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon and also Cornwall in the South West, though today this course is less important than the A303 dual carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test brought about the town's name, a regional tale suggested a trainer quit stocked stipulations, however it originates from an earlier bridge that was made from 'stocks' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 kilometres) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 km) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 nearby. The town's long high street was therefore on a beneficial path between both medieval cathedral cities. The community's civil parish has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's road crosses the River Test, noting the border of the churches of Stockbridge and Longstock by a reduced bridge of three arcs rebuilt and expanded in 1799. Five smaller sized river networks flow via the community. For a short time, to provide space for fish, these were divided right into eight artificial ditches simply over the town. The town gets on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
