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Kington is a market community, electoral ward and civil church in Herefordshire, England. According to the Parish, the ward had a population of 3,240 while the 2011 census had a population of 2,626. The name ‘Kington’ is stemmed from King’s-heap, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Community”, comparable to other neighboring towns such as Presteigne significance “Priest’s Town” as well as Knighton being “Knight’s Town”. Kington is to the west of Offa’s Dyke so probably this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, however ravaged. After the Norman Conquest Kington after that passed to the Crown on the failure of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Prior To 1121 King Henry I offered Kington to Adam de Port, that founded a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the very early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have actually been a peaceful barony as well as was associated with the workplace of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, most likely the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and also took off the nation. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, just to get away from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the fantastic mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and came to be an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being given to William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle then saw action in the Braose Wars against King John of England as well as was likely to have been destroyed by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a new citadel was commenced as well as the nearby Huntington Castle and also Kington Castle were deserted. All that remains of Kington Castle today is an excellent outcrop of rock topped by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town gathered around the castle and also Norman church in addition to a protective hillside above the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, located on higher ground over the town centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name definition Kings Town or Manor, high on the hill above the town where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The brand-new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was set out between 1175 and also 1230 ashore surrounding the River Arrow as well as perhaps assigned as part of the Saxon open area system. Located on the direct route the drovers extracted from Hergest Ridge as well as with eight yearly fairs, Kington grew in importance as a market town and there is still a flourishing animals market on Thursdays. The community preserves the medieval grid pattern of roads and back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary’s Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of close-by Hergest Court, killed at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and his better half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and likewise that of the Black Dog of Hergest are claimed to haunt the location around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s sighting reputedly presages death. It is likewise rumoured to have actually been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is understood to have actually remained at nearby Hergest Hall shortly before he wrote the novel.