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Kington is a market community, electoral ward and also 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-load, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Community”, similar to various other nearby towns such as Presteigne meaning “Priest’s Town” and also Knighton being “Knight’s Town”. Kington is to the west of Offa’s Dyke so probably 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 failure of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 1121 King Henry I offered Kington to Adam de Port, that started a new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have been a peaceful barony and also was connected with the workplace of constable of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, possibly the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and got away the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, just to get 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 became an appurtenance of the office of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being granted to William de Braose, 4th 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 most likely to have actually been damaged by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a new fortress was begun and the close-by Huntington Castle and also Kington Castle were abandoned. All that remains of Kington Castle today is a fantastic outcrop of rock covered by a couple of fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and also Norman church on top of a defensive hill above the River Arrow. St Mary’s church, situated on greater ground over the community centre. ‘Chingtune’ was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name definition Kings Town or Manor, high on the hill over the town where St. Mary’s Church currently stands. The brand-new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined between 1175 and 1230 ashore bordering the River Arrow and also perhaps marked as part of the Saxon open field system. Situated on the direct route the drovers took from Hergest Ridge as well as with eight yearly fairs, Kington expanded in value as a market community as well as there is still a prospering animals market on Thursdays. The community keeps the medieval grid pattern of streets as well as back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary’s Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of close-by Hergest Court, slain at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and his better half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and also that of the Black Dog of Hergest are stated to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog’s sighting reputedly presages fatality. It is also rumoured to have actually been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is understood to have remained at nearby Hergest Hall quickly before he created the novel.