Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town and also vacationer 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 mixed population at the above census was 4,381. It is situated at the north end of the Kingsbridge Estuary, a ria that extends to the sea six miles south 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 town created around a bridge which was built in or prior to the 10th century in between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, and also Chillington, to the eastern, thus providing it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was provided the right to hold a market there, and also by 1238 the negotiation had come to be a district. The estate remained in possession of the abbot up 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 local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the numerous Stanborough.