Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town and visitor 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 positioned at the north end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that reaches the sea six miles south of the town. It is the 3rd largest settlement in the South Hams and also is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town developed around a bridge which was built 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 providing 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 manor stayed in possession 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 integrated by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough.
