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Kington is a market town, selecting ward and also 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 originated from King’s-heap, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Community”, comparable to other close-by towns such as Presteigne significance “Priest’s Town” and Knighton being “Knight’s Town”. Kington is to the west of Offa’s Dyke so most likely this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, but devastated. After the Norman Conquest Kington then passed to the Crown on the downfall of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Prior To 1121 King Henry I offered Kington to Adam de Port, who founded a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the very early Welsh Marches. Kington appears to have been a silent barony and also was associated with the office of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, probably the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and also ran away the nation. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish military, only to leave from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the excellent mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and also ended up being an appurtenance of the office of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being approved to William de Braose, fourth Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle after that saw action in the Braose Wars against King John of England and also was most likely to have actually been ruined by royal forces in August 1216. Within a few years a new citadel was commenced as well as the close-by Huntington Castle and Kington Castle were abandoned. All that remains of Kington Castle today is a fantastic outcrop of rock covered by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle as well as Norman church on top of a defensive hillside over the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, situated on greater ground above the community centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name significance Kings Town or Manor, high up on the hill above the town where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The brand-new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out between 1175 as well as 1230 on land surrounding the River Arrow and possibly assigned as part of the Saxon open field system. Located on the direct route the drovers drew from Hergest Ridge as well as with eight annual fairs, Kington expanded in value as a market community and also there is still a prospering animals market on Thursdays. The community maintains the middle ages grid pattern of roads as well as back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary’s Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of neighboring Hergest Court, slain at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and his better half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and additionally that of the Black Dog of Hergest are claimed to haunt the location around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s discovery reputedly presages death. It is additionally rumoured to have been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have stayed at neighboring Hergest Hall shortly prior to he wrote the novel.