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Kington is a market town, selecting ward as well as civil parish 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 derived from King’s-bunch, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Community”, comparable to other close-by communities such as Presteigne meaning “Priest’s Town” and 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, but ravaged. After the Norman Conquest Kington then passed to the Crown on the failure of Roger de Breteuil, second Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 1121 King Henry I offered Kington to Adam de Port, who started a new Marcher barony in this part of the very early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have actually been a silent barony as well as was connected with the workplace of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, probably the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and also took off the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish military, just to flee 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 and also ended up being an appurtenance of the office of Sheriff of Hereford, ultimately being granted to William de Braose, fourth Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle after that saw activity in the Braose Wars against King John of England and was most likely to have actually been ruined by royal forces in August 1216. Within a few years a new fortress was commenced and the nearby Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were deserted. All that remains of Kington Castle today is a great outcrop of rock topped by a few fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle as well as Norman church on top of a defensive hillside above the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, situated on higher ground over the town centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name meaning Kings Town or Manor, high on capital above the community where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined in between 1175 as well as 1230 on land surrounding the River Arrow as well as potentially marked as part of the Saxon open area system. Situated on the direct route the drovers took from Hergest Ridge and also with 8 annual fairs, Kington expanded in importance as a market town and there is still a flourishing animals 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 close-by Hergest Court, killed at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his spouse, 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 model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have actually stayed at nearby Hergest Hall quickly prior to he wrote the novel.