The town's street crosses the River Test, marking the border of the parishes of Stockbridge and Longstock by a low bridge of three arches rebuilt and widened in 1799.

[4] Edward I stayed in Stockbridge in August 1294, as did the last Catholic King, James II, on his way to Salisbury to meet the forces of the Prince of Orange.

[4] The right to hold a market was awarded to the town (as the parcel known as The Street in King's Somborne manor) before 1190 in Richard I's reign,[4] reviewed and confirmed in 1200, and extended to an annual three-day fair by Henry III.

[8] By the mid-Tudor era, under Edward VI, the wealthy burgages numbered 58, partly in consequence of this, in 1562 two members of parliament were granted.

[10] Hampshire's four tourist Pocket Guides cover the traditional towns of Stockbridge, Alresford, Bishops Waltham and Wickham.

Then it was let which gave rents of assizes to various men, including to Joseph Foster Barham, MP, on whose death in 1832, it went to his wife who married the Earl of Clarendon to hold for their son; then sold to George G. Maitland then to Charles Warner then to Francis Hardinge and then to the more nationally famous person mentioned below.

One of the mills belonged to the lord of Leckford Abbotts in 1548[4] Primary: Secondary: Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian.

[4] A Victorian Gothic church, St Peter's, designed by J Colson, was built in 1866 at a central location in the High Street.