Stockbridge sits on the River Test in Hampshire, southern England.
The River Test at Houghton Lodge Gardens, just south of Stockbridge, Hampshire. Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stockbridge sits on the River Test in Hampshire, southern England; the Anton comes down from Andover to join the Test above the town, and the Itchen runs through Winchester, about nine miles to the east, to Southampton Water.
20 guides and lodges within 30 miles (13 fly-focused, 0 lodges). Unclaimed listings, built from each business's own website: confirm licensing, rates and dates directly.
Stockbridge, England · 3 mi
Saltwater & ocean charters · Beginners & lessons · River Test & River Itchen
Andover, England · 11 mi
Beginners & lessons · Lodge packages · River Test & River Itchen
Winchester, England · 12 mi
Lake & stillwater · Beginners & lessons · River Itchen
Basingstoke, England · 18 mi
Lake & stillwater · Saltwater & ocean charters · River Test & River Itchen
The circle is the 30-mile area this page covers, around Stockbridge. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.
Map of the The Test & Itchen: Hampshire chalk streams area: its waters, shops and guides
Map of The Test & Itchen: Hampshire chalk streams: the 30-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.
The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.
No live reading is shown on this hub page; open a linked water for the agency gauges and sources we hold for it.
17 guide and lodge websites nearby name species of their own; counted below. This is what they advertise, not a promise of what you will catch.
Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.
Fees on the agency page
Freshwater fishing for salmon, trout, freshwater fish, smelt or eels in England needs an Environment Agency rod licence, plus the fishery owner's permission or a day ticket.
Licence pageNothing here grants or implies access to any water.
Within 30 miles. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.
Near The Test & Itchen: Hampshire chalk streams. Each fact comes from the business's own website, an official register or an approved claim; the listing page links the source.
Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Stockbridge. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.
9 nearby operators publish a rates page. We never copy rates or estimate a budget for this hub; these links open each operator's own rates page.
For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.
A beginner fly-fishing checklist: a matched 9 ft 5 weight outfit, leaders, tippet, a starter fly assortment and the few tools you need, with estimated prices by tier, where to buy, and a casting lesson from a local shop.
9′ rod, 5 weight, matched outfit · Trout, panfish and bass in most local water
Open checklistA matched outfit and the few tools that go with it.
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Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.
Links checked 22 Oct 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.
Stockbridge, England, United Kingdom
Fishing lodge · 0.3 mi
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River cabins · 18 mi
