Kingskerswell

Kingskerswell
The former A380 road through Kingskerswell, 2008
Kingskerswell is located in Devon
Kingskerswell
Kingskerswell
Location within Devon
OS grid referenceSX8867
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNewton Abbot
Postcode districtTQ12
Dialling code01803
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Devon
50°29′46″N 3°34′20″W / 50.4960°N 3.5722°W / 50.4960; -3.5722

Kingskerswell (formerly Kings Carswell,[1] or Kings Kerswell) is a village and civil parish within Teignbridge local government district in the south of Devon, England. The village grew up where an ancient track took the narrowest point across a marshy valley and it is of ancient foundation, being mentioned in the Domesday Book. It has a church dating back to the 14th century and the ruins of a manor house of similar date. The coming of the railway in the 1840s had a large effect on the village, starting its conversion into a commuter town. The village is a major part of the electoral ward called Kerswell-with-Combe. This ward had a population of 5,679 at the 2011 census.[2]

It was situated on a busy main road, part of the A380, between Torquay and Newton Abbot until the opening of the South Devon Highway in December 2015. There had been proposals to reroute this road to relieve the traffic bottleneck since 1951.

  1. ^ "Parishes: Cadbury - Clawton | British History Online".
  2. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 18 February 2015.It is Twinned with Lonsee in France