Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town as well as tourist center in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two electoral wards bear 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 extends to the sea 6 miles south of the community. It is the 3rd largest negotiation in the South Hams as well as is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The community developed around a bridge which was built in or before the 10th century between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the eastern, therefore offering it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was approved the right to hold a market there, and also by 1238 the negotiation had actually ended up being a district. The estate continued to be in belongings of the abbot till the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was approved 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.