Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town as well as visitor center in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. 2 electoral wards bear 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 Tidewater, a ria that reaches the sea six miles south of the community. It is the third largest negotiation in the South Hams and is 32 miles (51 kilometres) south-southwest of Exeter. The community developed 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 eastern, thus offering it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was approved the right to hold a market there, and also by 1238 the settlement had actually become a borough. The manor stayed in ownership of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was granted 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 hundred of Stanborough.
