Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market community and also tourist hub in the South Hams area of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. 2 electoral wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their combined population at the above census was 4,381. It is located at the north end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that reaches the sea 6 miles south of the town. It is the third biggest negotiation in the South Hams as well as is 32 miles (51 kilometres) south-southwest of Exeter. The town developed around a bridge which was integrated in or prior to the 10th century between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and also Chillington, to the eastern, hence offering it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was given the right to hold a market there, as well as by 1238 the negotiation had actually become a district. The manor stayed in property of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was granted to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never ever represented in Parliament or incorporated by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the numerous Stanborough.
