Kingsteignton

Kingsteignton is a town and common area in South Devon, England. It lies at the leader of the Teign Estuary toward the west of Teignmouth in the Teignbridge locale. It is avoided by the A380 and is likewise on the A383, A381, B3193 and B3195. Kingsteignton is presently spoken to in parliament by Anne Marie Morris, as a major aspect of the Newton Abbot Constituency. Kingsteignton has a populace of more than 11,000. The danger of being consolidated into the close-by town of Newton Abbot provoked the area chamber to change Kingsteignton's status to a town. The change produced results from 1 January 2009.

The town has two constituent wardseast and west. Their consolidated populaces at the 2011 evaluation was 11,147. Established in the mid 8th century by the lords of Wessex as the focal point of a huge Saxon home that stretched out from Teignmouth to Manaton, Kingsteignton was a key settlement in Saxon occasions and gave its name to the Saxon hundred of Teignton. The hundred disputable or court was held in the town yet it creates the impression that when of the Domesday Survey the name of the hundred had been changed to Teignbridge, potentially showing that the site of the court had been moved. As a regal vill Kingsteignton gave rich pickings to Danish marauders who ravaged it in 1001.