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Kington is a market community, selecting ward and also 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 stemmed from King’s-ton, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Community”, similar to various other neighboring 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 devastated. After the Norman Conquest Kington then passed to the Crown on the failure of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 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 actually been a silent barony and was connected with the office of constable 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 military, only to take off from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the wonderful mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and came to be an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being provided to William de Braose, fourth Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle then saw action in the Braose Wars against King John of England as well as was most likely to have actually been destroyed by royal forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a brand-new citadel was started as well as the close-by Huntington Castle and also Kington Castle were abandoned. 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, situated on greater ground above the town centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Publication in 1086, the name meaning Kings Town or Manor, high on capital over the town where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out in between 1175 and also 1230 ashore bordering the River Arrow and possibly assigned as part of the Saxon open field system. Located on the direct route the drovers took from Hergest Ridge and also with 8 annual fairs, Kington expanded in significance as a market community and there is still a thriving livestock market on Thursdays. The town maintains the middle ages grid pattern of roads and back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary’s Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of nearby Hergest Court, killed at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his spouse, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, as well as likewise 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 actually been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have actually remained at neighboring Hergest Hall shortly before he composed the book.