Kingsbridge

Entrance road from West Alvington Hill.

Looking along Trebble Park off Cookworthy Road.

A lamppost with some murky water attached.

Looking along Town Park off the A381.

Looking along the road.

Against the south wall of the grade I listed Church of St Edmund, and to C18 members of the Gilberd family.

The church is listed grade I. The description at Link is hardly worth linking to.

In the former Town Hall.

A timber-built Exchange or Market House, referred to as the Chepe House, Butchery or Shambles, formerly stood in the middle of Fore Street, opposite the church. The building, in which the manor courts were held, is shown in a view of the town dated 1586. It was still in existence in 1795, when a legal brief described it as being 128 feet long by 16 feet wide. It was taken down in the following year and replaced by the present Shambles or Market Arcade. This building extends over the pavement next to Saint Edmund's Church. It retains, in its arcade of seven bays, five granite pillars dating from 1586. Behind the arcade are narrow shops. A staircase at the south end leads to offices on the first floor. It is Grade II* Listed. For an exterior view see SX7344 : The Shambles in Fore Street, Kingsbridge.

For information about this building see SX7344 : The Shambles in Kingsbridge.

This building at numbers 1 and 3 Fore Street now houses a charity shop on the ground floor with residential apartments above. The site was initially the Blue Anchor Inn and brewhouse built in the mid 18th century. The present building was erected in the 1860s, and it was modernized and renamed the Quay Hotel in the early 1980s. It eventually closed in 2015. Constructed of stuccoed stone under a slate roof. Listed, grade II, with details at: Link Kingsbridge is a market town in the South Hams district of Devon. It is located at the head of an estuary some 17 miles southwest of Torquay and about 17 miles southeast of Plymouth. The town formed around a bridge built in or before the 10th century between two royal estates, giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). Situated in the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and close to the South Devon coast, the town is a popular tourist destination.

Number 4 Fore Street, a shop with accommodation above, is sited on the corner of Mill Street. Probably built in the early 19th century, of rendered stone under a slate roof. The wooden shopfront is early 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: Link Kingsbridge is a market town in the South Hams district of Devon. It is located at the head of an estuary some 17 miles southwest of Torquay and about 17 miles southeast of Plymouth. The town formed around a bridge built in or before the 10th century between two royal estates, giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). Situated in the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and close to the South Devon coast, the town is a popular tourist destination.

Number 6 Fore Street is a shop, now used as offices, with accommodation above. Built in the late 18th or early 19th century of rendered stone, lined to simulate ashlar, under a slate roof. The wooden shopfront is 19th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: Link Kingsbridge is a market town in the South Hams district of Devon. It is located at the head of an estuary some 17 miles southwest of Torquay and about 17 miles southeast of Plymouth. The town formed around a bridge built in or before the 10th century between two royal estates, giving it the name of Kyngysbrygge ("King's bridge"). Situated in the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and close to the South Devon coast, the town is a popular tourist destination.