Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town and also tourist hub in the South Hams area of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two 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 reaches the sea 6 miles southern of the town. It is the 3rd biggest negotiation in the South Hams and is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The community formed around a bridge which was constructed in or before the 10th century in between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and also Chillington, to the east, therefore offering it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was given the right to hold a market there, and also by 1238 the settlement had actually become a district. The chateau continued to be in ownership of the abbot up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was provided to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never stood for in Parliament or integrated by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the numerous Stanborough.
