Did Ken Follett's Kingsbridge exist?

Everyone who has read Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth knows that the priory of Kingsbridge is meant to be fictional, as well as the adjacent town of Shiring. What if historical evidence might suggest that there was a place called Kingsbridge in the 12th century? Although not a diocese, the hundred-court of Kingsbridge appears in one of Henry I's char…