Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town and also visitor hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. 2 selecting wards bear 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 reaches the sea 6 miles southern of the town. It is the 3rd largest settlement in the South Hams and is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town formed 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 eastern, for this reason giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was provided the right to hold a market there, and also by 1238 the negotiation had ended up being a district. The mansion continued to be in possession of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was provided to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never represented in Parliament or incorporated by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough.
