Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge is a market town and tourist center in the South Hams district of Devon, England, with a population of 6,116 at the 2011 census. 2 selecting wards birth the name of Kingsbridge (East & North). Their consolidated population at the above census was 4,381. It is located at the northern end of the Kingsbridge Tidewater, a ria that encompasses the sea 6 miles south of the community. It is the 3rd largest settlement in the South Hams and is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Exeter. The town created around a bridge which was integrated in or before the 10th century between the royal estates of Alvington, to the west, and Chillington, to the eastern, for this reason providing it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was approved the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the negotiation had actually become a borough. The chateau remained in ownership 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 included by charter, the city government being by a portreeve. It lay within the numerous Stanborough.