20 Mar
Bathroom | Supply & Install
Kington - HR5
Enquiry from: F C
Start Date: 1 to 3 months
Homeowner Complete new bathroom suite Supplied and fitted Please contact to appoint
Kington
Kington is a market community, electoral ward as well as 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-bunch, being Anglo-Saxon for "King's Town", similar to other nearby communities 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 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 established a new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches. Kington appears to have actually been a quiet barony as well as was connected with the office of sheriff of Hereford. In 1172, Adam de Port, most likely the great-grandson of Henry Port, rebelled and also took off the nation. He returned in 1174 with a Scottish army, only to take off from the resulting Battle of Alnwick to the terrific mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and became an appurtenance of the workplace of Sheriff of Hereford, finally being given to William de Braose, fourth Lord of Bramber in 1203 for £100. The castle after that saw action in the Braose Wars versus King John of England and was most likely to have been destroyed by royal forces in August 1216. Within a few years a new citadel was begun and also the nearby Huntington Castle and also Kington Castle were deserted. All that continues to be of Kington Castle today is an excellent outcrop of rock topped by a few fragmentary earthworks. The old town clustered around the castle and Norman church in addition to a protective hill above the River Arrow. St Mary's church, located on higher ground above the town centre. 'Chingtune' was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, the name significance Kings Town or Manor, high up on capital above the town where St. Mary's Church currently stands. The new Kington, called Kyneton in the Fields, was outlined in between 1175 as well as 1230 ashore bordering the River Arrow as well as perhaps marked as part of the Saxon open field system. Located on the direct route the drovers extracted from Hergest Ridge as well as with 8 yearly fairs, Kington grew in relevance as a market community and also there is still a prospering livestock 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 neighboring Hergest Court, killed at the Battle of Banbury 1469, as well as his spouse, Elen Gethin. The ghost of Sir Thomas, as well as also that of the Black Dog of Hergest are stated to haunt the area around Hergest Ridge. The Black Dog's discovery reputedly presages fatality. It is also rumoured to have been the prototype for The Hound of the Baskervilles as Conan Doyle is understood to have remained at close-by Hergest Hall quickly prior to he wrote the novel.
