Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market community and traveler center in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. 2 electoral wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their consolidated population at the above census was 4,381. It is situated at the north end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that encompasses the sea six miles south of the community. It is the third largest settlement in the South Hams as well as is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town formed around a bridge which was constructed in or before the 10th century in between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the east, thus giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was approved the right to hold a market there, as well as by 1238 the settlement had become a borough. The estate stayed in property of the abbot till the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was given to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never represented in Parliament or integrated by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough.
