Stockbridge is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is among the tiniest towns in the UK with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It rests astride the River Test as well as at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is located on the A30 road, which as soon as lugged a lot of the traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon as well as Cornwall in the South West, though today this route is less important than the A303 twin carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test resulted in the community's name, a regional tale suggested a coach quit stocked stipulations, however it stems 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 kilometres) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 close by. The town's lengthy high street was hence on a helpful route in between the two medieval cathedral cities. The town's civil parish has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's street goes across the River Test, noting the boundary of the churches of Stockbridge and Longstock by a reduced bridge of three arcs rebuilt as well as broadened in 1799. 5 smaller river channels flow with the town. For a quick time, to provide area for fish, these were divided into eight synthetic ditches just above the town. The community gets on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.