Stockbridge Stockbridge was a sleepy English town of uncertain location . Various accounts held that it was either in Gloucestershire ( COMIC : " Stars Fell on Stockbridge " ) , Norfolk ( PROSE : " " ) Hampshire ( AUDIO : " Autumn " ) or Mummerset . ( AUDIO : " Castle of Fear " ) Wherever it was , though , it was definitely English and in a valley . ( COMIC : " Endgame " ) The Doctor spent considerable time there in several incarnations . The Fifth Doctor in particular spent much time there , usually due to commitments to the Stockbridge Cricket Club . He described the settlement as " the one place in the universe where nothing ever changes " . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) His friends Izzy Sinclair and Maxwell Edison were long - term residents . Stockbridge was the centre of many alien invasions and time distortions . The Doctor , over time , visited the town in all the stages of its life to save it from predators . The local pub was the Redfern Inn . ( COMIC : " Stars Fell on Stockbridge " , AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) The bed and breakfast Green Dragon , Justinian ' s Church , the duck pond — into which the Doctor fell — and the village green were some of the town ' s main features in the 20th and 21st centuries , ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) although medieval Stockbridge was dominated by a castle . ( AUDIO : " Castle of Fear " ) History . While possessed by an elemental being which could " possess " technology , the Doctor ' s TARDIS appeared in Stockbridge in the distant past , leaving an imprint in a chalk quarry there , before travelling forward through time . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Horror " ) Edward Linfoot was a resident of the village in the 19th century . He died in 1872 , aged 56 . ( AUDIO : " Plague of the Daleks " ) The 20th century . During World War II , an Army base was situated there . ( COMIC : " The Tides of Time " ) In the 1970s , Stockbridge was invaded by the Iron Legion . ( COMIC : " Doctor Who and the Iron Legion " ) While living there temporarily during the early 1980s , the Doctor , while playing cricket ( which he did frequently in the village ) saw a ball switch places with an Army hand grenade from the past in 1982 , alerting the Doctor to the disruptions in the universe caused by Melanicus ' mis - use of the Event Synthesizer . After a strange odyssey , the Doctor and his companion Sir Justin ( whom he had met along the way ) confronted the demon in a church in Stockbridge , now ruined by the Millennium Wars . Sir Justin destroyed Melanicus at the cost of his own life and the Doctor discovered the name of the church : St Justinian ' s . ( COMIC : " The Tides of Time " ) After these apocalyptic events , the Doctor met Maxwell Edison , a nerdy UFO chaser regarded by the locals , with some justification , as something of a kook . Maxwell and the Doctor visited an alien ship in Earth orbit " haunted " by the same discorporate elemental which would later take over the TARDIS . Knowing the ship would break up when its orbit decayed allowed Maxwell to impress the folk of Stockbridge with a successful prophecy . ( COMIC : " Stars Fell on Stockbridge " ) On 12 June 1984 , Harold and Alice Withers , the owners of the Green Dragon , were married . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) Five years later on 24 June 1989 , the local school burned down . Philip Withers died in the fire at age seven . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " , " Plague of the Daleks " ) The Doctor ' s fifth incarnation would regularly turn up during summer to play in the Stockbridge cricket team . He usually tried to leave straight after the last match . ( AUDIO : " Autumn " ) In 1992 , the blast that obliterated Cheldon Bonniface extended to parts of nearby Stockbridge . ( PROSE : " " ) Years later , in his eighth incarnation , the Doctor met Maxwell Edison , again . This time , the Celestial Toymaker had turned every human in the village except Maxwell and his young friend Izzy into doll s which he could control . After the defeat of the Toymaker , Izzy left with the Doctor in the TARDIS . ( COMIC : " Endgame " ) Following many adventures together , the Doctor returned Izzy to Stockbridge on the same day that she had left . ( COMIC : " Oblivion " ) The 21st century . Around the millennium , Lizzie Corrigan arrived and moved in . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) In 2008 , Alice Withers died . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) The Doctor , now in his tenth incarnation , made yet another visit to Stockbridge in mid - December 2008 , where he again met Maxwell . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Child " ) On 4 August 2009 , Maxwell returned from a negated timeline ( see below ) and was happy to see his village safe and sound again . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) At some point , the Doctor became the head of the Stockbridge Chess Society . ( COMIC : " Fugitive " ) In 2016 , the Twelfth Doctor lured Josiah W . Dogbolter to Stockbridge , whose villagers the Doctor had frozen in time , so he could bring him down . Max and Izzy incapacitated Dogbolter , and the Doctor had Sharon Allen broadcast Dogbolter confessing to his crimes of murder to the Galactic Broadcasting Corporation in Dogbolter ' s century . This led to Dogbolter ' s arrest and the freezing of his assets . The Doctor then returned the villagers to normal . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Showdown " ) Stockbridge ' s destruction . After the 45th century , Stockbridge was conserved in an environment dome after the rest of Earth became unhabitable . The place became a ( unpopular ) tourist attraction ; guests of all worlds came to visit to see how human s lived in olden days . After the Fifth Doctor defeated Dalek s which had invaded Stockbridge , Lysette Barclay destroyed the environment dome and Stockbridge to stop any Dalek technology being recovered . ( AUDIO : " Plague of the Daleks " ) Alternate timeline . In an alternate timeline , the village " vanished " out of thin air in 1950 . The Psychic Investigation Group ( PIG ) was formed by Lizzie Corrigan to investigate this disappearance . In reality , the supposed disappearance was actually a stasis field around the town created automatically by a Rutan ship that came close to exploding . The people within the " bubble " of the stasis field relived past experiences every day and could never die , but these effects could not leave the bubble . Everyone who died in the main timeline between 1950 and 2009 remained alive . The Lord and Lady of the Manor , future versions of the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa , ruled , actually puppets of Viridios . But , as the Fifth Doctor said , " eventually bubbles pop " — on 4 August 2009 , the walls were destroyed and , with the help of Lizzie Corrigan and Maxwell Edison , the timeline was negated when the Doctor and Nyssa escaped , thereby never becoming the possible future versions that turned the village into " hell " in the first place . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " )