Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market community and also traveler hub in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. 2 selecting wards bear 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 Tidewater, a ria that includes the sea six miles southern of the town. It is the third largest negotiation in the South Hams and also is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The community created around a bridge which was integrated in or before the 10th century between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and also Chillington, to the east, thus 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 ended up being a district. The mansion continued to be in property of the abbot up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was approved to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never represented in Parliament or incorporated by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the numerous Stanborough.
