02 Apr
Wall cladding
Hereford - HR4
Enquiry from: Gail M
Start Date: Immediate
Small hallway, stairs and landing wall panelled and new skirting boards
Kington
Kington is a market town, selecting ward and 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-ton, being Anglo-Saxon for "King's Town", comparable to various other neighboring communities such as Presteigne meaning "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 devastated. After the Norman Conquest Kington after that 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, that established a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have been a silent 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 also got away the country. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish military, only to take off from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the wonderful mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and ended up being an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, lastly being approved to William de Braose, fourth Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £100. The castle then saw activity in the Braose Wars versus King John of England and was likely to have been destroyed by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a new fortress was begun as well as the nearby Huntington Castle as well as Kington Castle were deserted. All that continues to be of Kington Castle today is a terrific outcrop of rock covered by a few fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and Norman church on top of a protective hill over the River Arrow. St Mary's church, situated on higher ground above 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 now stands. The brand-new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined in between 1175 and 1230 on land bordering the River Arrow and also potentially marked as part of the Saxon open field system. Positioned on the direct route the drovers took from Hergest Ridge and with eight annual fairs, Kington grew in value as a market town as well as there is still a growing livestock market on Thursdays. The community keeps the medieval grid pattern of streets and also back lanes. In the chapel of St. Mary's Church, there is the alabaster tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan of nearby Hergest Court, slaughtered at the Battle of Banbury 1469, as well as his partner, 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 discovery reputedly presages fatality. It is additionally rumoured to have actually been the model for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is known to have actually stayed at nearby Hergest Hall shortly prior to he wrote the novel.
