Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town as well as traveler center in the South Hams area of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two selecting wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their mixed population at the above census was 4,381. It is positioned at the northern end of the Kingsbridge Tidewater, a ria that extends to the sea six miles south of the community. It is the 3rd biggest negotiation in the South Hams and is 32 miles (51 kilometres) south-southwest of Exeter. The community formed around a bridge which was built in or before the 10th century in between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and also Chillington, to the east, for this reason providing it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was given the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the settlement had actually become a district. The estate stayed in property of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was provided to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never represented in Parliament or included by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the thousand of Stanborough.
