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Kington is a market town, 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 originated from King’s-load, being Anglo-Saxon for “King’s Town”, comparable to various other nearby communities such as Presteigne meaning “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 downfall of Roger de Breteuil, second Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 1121 King Henry I offered Kington to Adam de Port, that founded a new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington appears to have actually been a silent barony and was associated with the office of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, possibly the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and also fled the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, only to run away from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the fantastic 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 office of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being approved to William de Braose, fourth Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £ 100. The castle after that saw activity in the Braose Wars versus King John of England as well as was most likely to have actually been ruined by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a few years a brand-new citadel was started and also the neighboring Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were abandoned. All that stays of Kington Castle today is an excellent outcrop of rock covered by a few fragmentary earthworks. The old town gathered around the castle as well as Norman church in addition to a defensive hillside over 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 meaning Kings Town or Manor, high on capital above the community where St. Mary’s Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined in between 1175 and also 1230 on land surrounding the River Arrow and perhaps assigned as part of the Saxon open field system. Situated on the direct route the drovers extracted from Hergest Ridge and also with eight yearly fairs, Kington grew in value as a market community and also there is still a growing animals market on Thursdays. The town maintains the medieval grid pattern of roads and back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary’s Church, there is the alabaster burial place of Sir Thomas Vaughan of close-by Hergest Court, slain at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his other half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, as well as also 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 additionally rumoured to have actually been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have remained at neighboring Hergest Hall soon prior to he created the novel.