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Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a town and also civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It is just one of the tiniest towns in the UK with a population of 592 since the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test as well as at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is positioned on the A30 road, which when carried a lot of the website traffic from London to Dorset, south Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in the South West, though today this path is less important than the A303 double carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test brought about the community's name, a regional tale recommended a train stop equipped arrangements, yet it derives from an earlier bridge that was made of 'stocks' (tree trunks). Salisbury is 15 miles (24 kilometres) by road; Winchester is 8.3 miles (13.4 kilometres) by the B3049 road that joins the A30 close by. The town's lengthy high road was hence on a valuable course between the two medieval cathedral cities. The community's civil church has an area of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The town's road crosses the River Test, noting the boundary of the churches of Stockbridge and Longstock by a reduced bridge of three arches rebuilt as well as broadened in 1799. 5 smaller sized river channels circulation through the town. For a quick time, to supply space for fish, these were divided into eight fabricated ditches just above the community. The town is on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.