Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a village as well as civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It is among the smallest 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 community is located on the A30 road, which when carried most of the web traffic from London to Dorset, southern Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in the South West, though today this course is less important than the A303 double carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test caused the town's name, a local tale suggested an instructor stop stocked provisions, but it derives from an earlier bridge that was made of 'stocks' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 km) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 kilometres) by the B3049 road that joins the A30 close by. The town's long high street was thus on a helpful course between both medieval cathedral cities. The community's civil church has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's street goes across the River Test, noting the boundary of the churches of Stockbridge and also Longstock by a low bridge of 3 arcs rebuilt and widened in 1799. Five smaller sized river networks flow through the community. For a brief time, to supply room for fish, these were split into 8 man-made ditches simply above the community. The town is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.
