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Kington is a market community, electoral ward as well as civil parish 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 derived from King’s-ton, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Community”, comparable to other nearby 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 most likely this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, however devastated. After the Norman Conquest Kington after that passed to the Crown on the downfall of Roger de Breteuil, second Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 1121 King Henry I provided Kington to Adam de Port, who established a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the very early Welsh Marches. Kington seems 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 got away the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, just to leave from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the great 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 given to William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle after that saw action in the Braose Wars versus King John of England and was likely to have actually been ruined by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a few years a brand-new fortress was commenced and the close-by Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were abandoned. All that remains of Kington Castle today is an excellent outcrop of rock covered by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and Norman church in addition to a defensive hill above 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 up on capital over the town where St. Mary’s Church currently stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out in between 1175 and 1230 on land surrounding the River Arrow and potentially marked as part of the Saxon open area system. Positioned on the direct route the drovers drew from Hergest Ridge as well as with 8 yearly fairs, Kington expanded in value as a market community as well as there is still a prospering animals market on Thursdays. The community retains the medieval grid pattern of streets 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 spouse, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and additionally that of the Black Dog of Hergest are stated to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s sighting reputedly presages death. It is additionally rumoured to have been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is understood to have remained at neighboring Hergest Hall shortly before he wrote the book.