Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town and vacationer center in the South Hams district 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 located at the north end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that extends to the sea 6 miles southern of the town. It is the third biggest 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 between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the eastern, for this reason providing it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was approved the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the negotiation had actually come to be a district. The mansion stayed in property of the abbot up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was provided to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never represented in Parliament or integrated by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough.