Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town as well as traveler hub in the South Hams area of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two selecting wards bear the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their combined population at the above census was 4,381. It is located at the north end of the Kingsbridge Tidewater, a ria that includes the sea 6 miles southern of the town. It is the 3rd largest settlement in the South Hams and is 32 miles (51 kilometres) south-southwest of Exeter. The community created around a bridge which was integrated in or prior to the 10th century in between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, as well as Chillington, to the eastern, for this reason offering it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was provided the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the settlement had come to be a district. The estate continued to be in property of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was given to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never ever stood for in Parliament or included by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the thousand of Stanborough.
