Stockbridge, Hampshire
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Stockbridge is a village in Hampshire, United Kingdom. It is on the River Test, and in the Test Valley district. The A30 road goes through the town, which once carried most of the traffic from London to the South West. However, today most of the traffic uses the A303 road to the north of Stockbridge, so much less traffic travels through the village than did previously.
Stockbridge was once considered a town. It was given the right to hold a market by 1190, and elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons from the 1560s. The Reform Act 1832 abolished it as a rotten borough.
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