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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 stemmed from King’s-load, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Town”, similar to other nearby communities such as Presteigne significance “Priest’s Town” and also 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 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 offered Kington to Adam de Port, that established a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the very early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have actually been a peaceful barony and was connected with the workplace of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, most likely the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and took off the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish military, just to run away from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the excellent mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and also came to be an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being approved to William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle then saw action in the Braose Wars against King John of England and also was likely to have actually been destroyed by royal forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a brand-new citadel was commenced and the nearby Huntington Castle and also Kington Castle were deserted. All that continues to be of Kington Castle today is an excellent outcrop of rock covered by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town gathered around the castle and Norman church in addition to a protective hill above the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, situated on greater ground over the community 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 currently stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out between 1175 and 1230 ashore surrounding the River Arrow and also perhaps designated as part of the Saxon open field system. Situated on the direct route the drovers took from Hergest Ridge as well as with eight annual fairs, Kington grew in relevance as a market town and also there is still a growing livestock market on Thursdays. The community preserves the medieval grid pattern of streets and 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, as well as his partner, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and additionally that of the Black Dog of Hergest are said 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 stayed at nearby Hergest Hall shortly prior to he wrote the book.