The Stockbridge Anticline is one of a series of parallel east-west trending folds in the Cretaceous chalk of Hampshire.
It lies at the western end of the South Downs, immediately to the north of the Winchester-King's Somborne Syncline and east of Salisbury Plain.
The anticline axis runs for around 35 kilometres (22 mi) from around the Wallops, swinging south-south-east through Stockbridge and Crawley, between Micheldever and Kings Worthy, towards Medstead in the east.
Parallel folds to the south include the Winchester-East Meon Anticline and the Winchester-King's Somborne Syncline.
As with other nearby folds, the structure is controlled by movement of fault blocks within the Jurassic strata below.