Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market community and visitor center in the South Hams area of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. Two selecting wards bear the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their combined population at the above census was 4,381. It is positioned at the north end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that includes the sea 6 miles south of the community. It is the 3rd largest negotiation in the South Hams and also is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town created around a bridge which was built in or prior to the 10th century in between the imperial estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the east, 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, as well as by 1238 the negotiation had actually ended up being a district. The manor stayed in property of the abbot till the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was granted to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never stood for in Parliament or incorporated by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough.