Stockbridge
Stockbridge is a small town as well as civil parish in the Test Valley area of Hampshire, England. It is just one of the tiniest communities in the United Kingdom with a population of 592 as of the 2011 census. It rests astride the River Test and also at the foot of Stockbridge Down. The town is positioned on the A30 road, which as soon as carried a lot of the traffic from London to Dorset, south Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in the South West, though today this path is lesser than the A303 dual carriageway to the north. The bridge over the Test caused the town's name, a regional legend suggested a train stop equipped provisions, however it originates 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 km) by the B3049 road that signs up with the A30 close by. The community's lengthy high street was therefore on a helpful course between both middle ages cathedral cities. The town's civil parish has a location of 1,323 acres (535 ha). The community's street crosses the River Test, marking the boundary of the parishes of Stockbridge and also Longstock by a reduced bridge of 3 arches rebuilt and widened in 1799. Five smaller river networks flow through the community. For a quick time, to supply area for fish, these were split right into eight synthetic ditches simply above the town. The town gets on a common pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.