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Kington is a market community, electoral ward and also civil church 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 originated from King’s-load, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Town”, comparable to various other close-by communities 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 presumably this land was Welsh in the 8th century AD. The land was held by Anglo-Saxons in 1066, but devastated. After the Norman Conquest Kington after that passed to the Crown on the failure of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Prior To 1121 King Henry I gave Kington to Adam de Port, who founded a new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington appears to have been a silent barony and was associated with the workplace of constable of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, probably the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and took off the nation. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, only to run away 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 came to be an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, ultimately being approved 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 and also was most likely to have been ruined by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a brand-new citadel was begun and the nearby Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were abandoned. All that remains of Kington Castle today is a terrific outcrop of rock topped by a few fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and also Norman church on top of a defensive hillside above the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, located on greater ground above the town centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name meaning Kings Town or Manor, high up on capital over the town where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The brand-new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out in between 1175 and 1230 on land surrounding the River Arrow and possibly marked as part of the Saxon open field system. Situated on the direct route the drovers took from Hergest Ridge and also with eight yearly fairs, Kington expanded in significance as a market town and also there is still a thriving livestock market on Thursdays. The town maintains the middle ages grid pattern of streets as well as back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary’s Church, there is the alabaster burial place of Sir Thomas Vaughan of nearby Hergest Court, slain at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and his other half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, as well as likewise that of the Black Dog of Hergest are claimed to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s sighting reputedly presages death. It is likewise rumoured to have been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is understood to have remained at close-by Hergest Hall shortly prior to he created the book.