Writing in 1931, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, made the following notes about Stockton:
The south west end of the village where the road goes over the railway has a side road which leads to the footbridge emerging on the main Salisbury road opposite Codford St. Mary. The road and stone bridge of the Park is private so that the public have to make a long detour through Boyton (level crossing) or Wylye if they wish to use the roads to connect the main road with the lower Stockton road.
On the south side of the lower road are tracks which seem to lead nowhere when viewed on the spot but which the map shows leading to Chicklade, crossing the “Roman Road’ on the east side of Great Ridge Wood, and they also lead on to the Hindon-Berwick-Fonthill-Chilmark-Wilton main road. Such tracks are often scarcely discernable and only to be followed by those prepared to lose themselves in desolate places.