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Kington is a market town, electoral ward as well as 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-lot, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Town”, similar 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 presumably this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, however ruined. 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 provided 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 been a quiet barony and was associated with the workplace of constable of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, most likely the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and also took off the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, 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 as well as ended up being an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, lastly being granted 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 likely to have actually been damaged by royal forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a new citadel was begun and the close-by Huntington Castle and Kington Castle were abandoned. All that continues to be of Kington Castle today is a great outcrop of rock topped by a few fragmentary earthworks. The old town gathered around the castle as well as Norman church on top of a protective hillside over the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, located on greater ground over the community centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Publication in 1086, the name meaning Kings Town or Manor, high up on capital above the town where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out between 1175 as well as 1230 ashore bordering the River Arrow as well as possibly assigned as part of the Saxon open field system. Situated on the direct route the drovers drew from Hergest Ridge and also with 8 yearly fairs, Kington expanded in relevance as a market town as well as there is still a prospering livestock market on Thursdays. The community keeps 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, slaughtered at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his better half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and also that of the Black Dog of Hergest are stated to haunt the location around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s discovery reputedly presages fatality. It is also rumoured to have been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have stayed at nearby Hergest Hall shortly before he created the story.