About Kingsbridge
A guide to staying in Kingsbridge
Kingsbridge sits at the head of the Kingsbridge Estuary, which extends to the sea six miles (10 km) south of the town. It is a ria rather than a river mouth, with no significant river feeding it, so the water at the quay is salt and tidal: a broad expanse of mud and wading birds at low tide, a full basin at high.
It is the market town for this whole corner of Devon, and it behaves like one. A main street of independent shops, supermarkets, a quay, and enough open through the winter that a February stay here is a completely different proposition from a February stay in a coastal village. With 6,116 residents at the 2011 census it is several times the size of anywhere else on this site.
The argument for staying here is reach. Salcombe is at the far end of the estuary, Thurlestone and Hope Cove are on the west-facing coast about five miles away, Slapton and Start Bay are east, and every one of them is a straightforward drive rather than a lane-by-lane expedition. The argument against is equally simple: you are not on a beach.
What we list in the town is mostly self-catering — houses and cottages in and around the town, and apartments in the centre — plus a handful of hosted stays. Note that the properties on this page are the ones genuinely in or beside Kingsbridge. A great many listings across the South Hams carry a "Kingsbridge" postal address because TQ7 is a single post town covering 23 civil parishes; those are filed where they actually are.