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Kington is a market community, selecting 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 derived from King’s-heap, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Town”, comparable to various other close-by towns such as Presteigne meaning “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, yet ravaged. After the Norman Conquest Kington after that passed to the Crown on the downfall of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 1121 King Henry I provided Kington to Adam de Port, who established a new Marcher barony in this part of the very early Welsh Marches. Kington appears to have actually been a silent barony as well as was related to the office 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 flee 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 ended up being an appurtenance of the office of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being provided 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 as well as was most likely to have actually been ruined by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a brand-new citadel was begun and the close-by Huntington Castle and also Kington Castle were abandoned. All that stays of Kington Castle today is a great outcrop of rock topped by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town gathered around the castle as well as Norman church in addition to a defensive hill above the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, situated on higher ground above the community centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Publication in 1086, the name meaning Kings Town or Manor, high up on capital over the town where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined between 1175 as well as 1230 on land bordering the River Arrow and also perhaps marked as part of the Saxon open area system. Located on the direct route the drovers extracted from Hergest Ridge and with eight yearly fairs, Kington grew in significance as a market community as well as there is still a prospering livestock market on Thursdays. The town maintains the medieval 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 nearby Hergest Court, slaughtered at the Battle of Banbury 1469, as well as his partner, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and additionally that of the Black Dog of Hergest are claimed to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s discovery reputedly presages death. It is likewise rumoured to have been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have stayed at close-by Hergest Hall shortly before he created the book.