Kingsbridge is a market town as well as tourist hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two selecting wards bear the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their consolidated population at the above census was 4,381. It is situated at the north end of the Kingsbridge Tidewater, a ria that includes the sea six miles south of the town. It is the 3rd biggest negotiation in the South Hams as well as is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town formed around a bridge which was constructed in or before the 10th century between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the eastern, therefore providing it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was granted the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the settlement had ended up being a district. The manor continued to be in possession of the abbot till the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was granted to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never stood for in Parliament or integrated by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough.