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double line of houses branching off from the east side of Fore 

 Street towards the north end, formerly called Sigdure Lane, 

 sines that, by corruption, Sugar Lane, and more recently, 

 Duncombe Street (in compliment to the founder of the 

 Lectureship), together with the gardens, orchards, a few 

 small closes, and a genteel villa and pleasure grounds, called 

 Knowle House, at the north end, compose the whole parish." 

 The foregoing, although Avritten by Hawkins many years 

 ago, is a pretty accurate description of Kingsbridge at the 

 present time. 



Robert Dymond, Esq., F.S.A., says, "From the few ancient 

 buildings that remain, and from an old engraving, dated 

 1586, it may be inferred that Kingsbridge formerly wore 

 something of that quaint, foreign aspect, still in some degree 

 characterizing the neighbouring port of Dartmouth. The 

 ' Cheape House,' in the middle of the main street, was the 

 southernmost market place in the county." 



The old engraving referred to has been considered of suffi- 

 cient interest to be reproduced by photography. Hawkins 

 speaks of it thus : " The birds-eye view of Kingsbridge, 

 taken in 1586, and now preserved among the archives of the 

 Feoffees of the town lands, has been engraved to satisfy local 

 curiosity ; it may be proper to mention, however, that what 

 has been there marked ' The Wester parte ' is the south, and 

 the ' Easter end' is the north. This error is in the original." 

 Kingsbridge was formerly a part of the parish of Church- 

 stow, and at what period the separation took place is 

 uncertain. They, however, still form one vicarage. The 

 ecclesiastical history of Kingsbridge is rather complicated. 

 There is an old document, bearing date 1309, which is a 

 memorandum of the deposition of witnesses taken at Exeter, 

 concerning the rights and services of the chapel of St. 



