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 selecting wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their combined population at the above census was 4,381. It is situated at the north end of the Kingsbridge Tidewater, a ria that encompasses the sea six miles south of the community. It is the 3rd biggest negotiation in the South Hams and also is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town created around a bridge which was built in or prior to the 10th century in between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and also Chillington, to the east, hence giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was granted the right to hold a market there, and also by 1238 the negotiation had come to be a borough. The manor continued to be in belongings 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 included by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the numerous Stanborough.