Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market community and vacationer hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two selecting wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their consolidated population at the above census was 4,381. It is located at the north end of the Kingsbridge Tidewater, a ria that includes the sea 6 miles south of the community. It is the 3rd biggest negotiation in the South Hams and also is 32 miles (51 kilometres) south-southwest of Exeter. The town created around a bridge which was integrated in or before the 10th century in between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, as well as 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 settlement had come to be a borough. The manor stayed in possession of the abbot up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was approved to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never stood for in Parliament or included by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the numerous Stanborough.
