Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market community as well as traveler hub in the South Hams area of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their mixed population at the above census was 4,381. It is situated at the northern end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that reaches the sea six miles south of the community. It is the third largest negotiation in the South Hams as well as is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town developed around a bridge which was constructed in or before the 10th century in between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, and also Chillington, to the east, hence providing it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was given the right to hold a market there, and also by 1238 the settlement had actually come to be a borough. The mansion remained in property of the abbot up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was approved to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never ever represented in Parliament or incorporated by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough.
