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Kington is a market community, electoral ward and civil church in Herefordshire, England. According to the Church, 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-bunch, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Town”, similar to other neighboring towns such as Presteigne definition “Priest’s Town” as well as Knighton being “Knight’s Town”. Kington is to the west of Offa’s Dyke so presumably this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, yet 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 new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have been a peaceful barony as well as was associated with the workplace of constable of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, probably the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and ran away the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish military, just to take off from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the terrific mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown as well as became an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being approved to William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle then saw activity in the Braose Wars against King John of England and was likely to have actually been damaged by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a new fortress was started as well as the close-by Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were deserted. All that remains of Kington Castle today is a terrific outcrop of rock topped by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and also Norman church on top of a defensive hillside over the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, positioned on higher ground above the town centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Publication in 1086, the name significance Kings Town or Manor, high up on capital over 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 bordering the River Arrow and also possibly designated as part of the Saxon open area system. Situated on the direct route the drovers drew from Hergest Ridge and also with 8 annual fairs, Kington grew in importance as a market town and there is still a thriving livestock market on Thursdays. The community retains the medieval grid pattern of roads and also back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary’s Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of neighboring Hergest Court, killed at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his better half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and likewise that of the Black Dog of Hergest are said to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s discovery reputedly presages death. It is also rumoured to have been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have stayed at nearby Hergest Hall soon before he created the book.