What is "kingsmill"

Kingsmill is a name which has been used in James City County, Virginia since the mid-18th century. Initially the name of a plantation, in modern times, the name is attached to a geographic area which includes a large planned residential community, a resort complex, a theme park, a brewery, and a commercial park.

The Kingsmill area is located between the north bank of the James River just east (downstream) of the site where the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown was established in 1607 and Interstate Highway 64. Highway access to most of the area's many businesses and attractions is from U.S. Route 60 between the eastern city limits of Williamsburg and the adjacent community of Grove, or from Virginia State Route 199, which forms a semi-circular beltway of sorts around Williamsburg's southern side.

Kingsmill or Kingsmills may refer to:

• Kingsmill (surname), various people
• Kingsmill Bates (1916–2006), British naval officer

• Kingsmill, a plantation in James City County, Virginia, in the United States, namesake of a modern community
• Kingsmill Islands or Kingsmill Group, a historical name for the Gilbert Islands and the current name for a group of the southern Gilberts
• Kingsmills Park, a football ground in Inverness, Scotland
• Kingsmill Resort, near Williamsburg, Virginia, in the United States

• , a British frigate in commission in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945

• USS Kingsmill (DE-280), a United States Navy destroyer escort in commission from August to October 1945 which previously served in the Royal Navy as

• Kingsmill massacre, the murder of 11 Protestant men near the village of Kingsmills, Northern Ireland in 1976
• Kingsmill (bread), a British brand of bread made by Associated British Foods
• Kingsmill Championship, a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, played near Williamsburg, Virginia, in the United States

Kingsmill is a surname, and may refer to