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Kington
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-ton, being Anglo-Saxon for "King's Town", comparable to various other nearby towns such as Presteigne significance "Priest's Town" and 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 ruined. After the Norman Conquest Kington then passed to the Crown on the downfall of Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1075. Before 1121 King Henry I gave Kington to Adam de Port, who founded a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the very early Welsh Marches. Kington appears to have been a quiet barony and also was connected with the workplace of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, possibly the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled as well as fled the nation. 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 as well as 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 then saw activity in the Braose Wars against King John of England and also was likely to have been ruined by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a new fortress was started and the neighboring Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were deserted. All that stays 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 hillside over the River Arrow. St Mary's church, situated on greater ground over the town centre. 'Chingtune' was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name significance Kings Town or Manor, high up on the hill above the community where St. Mary's Church now stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was laid out in between 1175 as well as 1230 ashore surrounding the River Arrow and also potentially marked as part of the Saxon open field system. Situated on the direct route the drovers drew from Hergest Ridge as well as with 8 annual fairs, Kington grew in importance as a market town and also there is still a growing livestock market on Thursdays. The community maintains 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 neighboring Hergest Court, slain at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his wife, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and likewise that of the Black Dog of Hergest are said to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog's sighting reputedly presages fatality. It is likewise rumoured to have actually been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is understood to have stayed at close-by Hergest Hall soon before he wrote the story.
