following years, planning permission for a bypass was granted in August 2005 with the main construction work due to start in Summer 2010 for completion in 2013. However, in June 2010 the Government's Transport Minister, Norman Baker said that in light of a tough spending review funding could not be guaranteed, and in October 2010 it was confirmed that the bypass was not one of the 24 schemes that had been approved. However, in November 2011 the government awarded £74.6 million towards the cost of the bypass, and the county council stated that it hoped that construction could start in October 2012 with completion in December 2015. The bypass was opened to traffic on 15 December with a formal opening to take place in 2016. Notable people Samuel Barter, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Nicholas de Moels held the manor from 1230. Samuel Codner, baptised here in 1776, and part of a local family with long-standing links to the Newfoundland cod-fishing industry, set up the Newfoundland School Society in 1823. Edward Steere, who became the Bishop of Nyasaland in 1874, had his first curacy at St Mary's church. He married Mary Beatrice Brown of Barton Hall in 1858. Mike Sangster, one of the leading British tennis players of the 1960s, was born here in 1940. See also A380 road References Sources (pdf file) External links Kingskerswell Parish Council Villages in Devon Former manors in Devon