Name Index

To

Notes on Kingsbridge documents, etc.

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. 33 (1901) pp. 651-656.

by

W. Davies

Prepared by Michael Steer

The town of Kingsbridge formed around a bridge built in or before the 10th century between the royal estates of Alvington and Chillington, giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). In 1219 the Abbot of Buckfast was granted the right to hold a market there, and by 1238 the settlement had become a borough. The manor remained in possession of the abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was granted to Sir William Petre. Kingsbridge was never represented in Parliament nor incorporated by charter, the local government being by a portreeve. It lay within the hundred of Stanborough. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.