The traditional, elegant and dignified High Street of Stockbridge in Hampshire. The River Test is a pure chalk-spring river that flows through the town.

Commentary.

 

The Hampshire Downs and Salisbury Plain give rise to crystal-clear streams, like, here, in Stockbridge, the River Test.

Chalk is a permeable aquifer that filters out impurities

to produce these lustrous, pure streams.

Brown Trout, Mallard Ducks and ducklings were here in this 50-metre stretch.

The town name is literally taken from the fact that one of the original wooden bridges across the river was made from wood taken from old Stocks, used to punish offenders of the law, hence, “Stockbridge.”

Essentially, a single High Street, the A.30 to the South-West of England, parts of buildings date back 700 years, but most

were built between the 17th. and 19th. Centuries.

Town Hall and Clock.

Spire of St. Peter’s Church.

Several hotels.

Restaurants, pubs and cafés, by the score.

A small but dignified town between the Cathedral

cities of Salisbury and Winchester.

 

 

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