Kington is a market community, selecting ward and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. According to the Parish, 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-bunch, being Anglo-Saxon for "King's Town", similar to various other close-by communities 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, yet 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. Prior To 1121 King Henry I provided Kington to Adam de Port, that founded a brand-new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington seems to have actually been a quiet barony as well as was connected with the office 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 leave from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the great mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and also ended up being an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, lastly being granted to William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £100. The castle then saw activity in the Braose Wars against King John of England and was likely to have been damaged by imperial forces in August 1216. Within a couple of years a new fortress was commenced as well as the nearby Huntington Castle and also Kington Castle were deserted. All that stays of Kington Castle today is a wonderful outcrop of rock topped by a few fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and Norman church on top of a defensive hillside over the River Arrow. St Mary's church, positioned on greater ground above the community centre. 'Chingtune' was recorded in the Domesday Publication in 1086, the name significance Kings Town or Manor, high on capital over the community where St. Mary's Church currently stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was set out in between 1175 and 1230 on land surrounding the River Arrow as well as perhaps assigned as part of the Saxon open area system. Situated on the direct route the drovers extracted from Hergest Ridge as well as with eight yearly fairs, Kington expanded in importance as a market town as well as there is still a thriving animals market on Thursdays. The community preserves 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, killed at the Battle of Banbury 1469, and also his other half, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, and additionally that of the Black Dog of Hergest are claimed 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 known to have stayed at nearby Hergest Hall quickly before he created the novel.